Revelation 4:1
After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”
2 At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
3 The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”
- KJV
- After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
- WEB
- After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”
- ASV
- After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, [a voice] as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter.
- DARBY
- After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will shew thee the things which must take place after these things.
- BLB
- After these things I saw, and behold, a door was standing open in heaven, and the first voice that I heard as a trumpet is speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what is necessary to take place after these things.”
- ÅB
- Deretter så jeg, og se, det var en dør åpnet i himmelen, og den første røst, som jeg hadde hørt slik som av en basun, som talte med meg, sa: Stig opp her, og jeg vil vise deg det som skal skje heretter.
- OTB
- Etter disse hendelsene så jeg, og se, en dør sto åpen i himmelen. Den første stemmen jeg hørte, som lød som en basun, sa: “Kom opp hit, og jeg vil vise deg hva som må skje etter dette.”
- B1930
- Derefter så jeg, og se, det var en dør åpnet i himmelen, og den første røst, som jeg hadde hørt likesom av en basun, som talte med mig, sa: Stig op her, og jeg vil vise dig det som skal skje herefter.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 11:12
And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.
Read in contextExodus 24:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
Read in contextRevelation 1:19
Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.
Read in contextRevelation 1:10
On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Read in contextMark 1:10
As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the heavens breaking open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
Read in contextRevelation 1:1–3
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
Read in contextExodus 34:2–3
Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
Read in contextRevelation 16:17
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!”
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