Revelation 9:15

The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.

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WEBBE

The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.

BSB

So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

KJV

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

ASV

And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

BBE

And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.

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καὶ kai And G2532 ἐλύθησαν eluthēsan were released G3089 οἱ hoi the G3588 τέσσαρες tessares four G5064 ἄγγελοι angeloi angels G32 οἱ hoi who G3588 ἡτοιμασμένοι hētoimasmenoi prepared G2090 εἰς eis for G1519 τὴν tēn the G3588 ὥραν hōran hour G5610 καὶ kai and G2532 εἰς eis for G1519 τὴν tēn the G3588 ἡμέραν hēmeran day G2250 καὶ kai and G2532 μῆνα mēna month G3376 καὶ kai and G2532 ἐνιαυτὸν eniauton year G1763 ἵνα ina so that G2443 ἀποκτείνωσιν apokteinōsin they may kill G615 τὸ to (the) G3588 τρίτον triton a third G5154 τῶν tōn (the) G3588 ἀνθρώπων anthrōpōn of mankind G444

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 13–21

The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems the subject. Their time is limited. They not only slew in war, but brought a poisonous and ruinous religion. The antichristian generation repented not under these dreadful judgments. From this sixth trumpet learn that God can make one enemy of the church a scourge and a plague to another. The idolatry in the remains of the eastern church and elsewhere, and the sins of professed Christians, render this prophecy and its fulfilment more wonderful. And the attentive reader of Scripture and history, may find his faith and hope strengthened by events, which in other respects fill his heart with anguish and his eyes with tears, while he sees that men who escape these plagues, repent not of their evil works, but go on with idolatries, wickedness, and cruelty, till wrath comes upon them to the utmost.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.