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Revelation 4:2

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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.”

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.

4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.

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BSB
At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
KJV
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
WEB
Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne
ASV
Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;
DARBY
Immediately I became in [the] Spirit; and behold, a throne stood in the heaven, and upon the throne one sitting,
BLB
Immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sitting upon the throne,
ÅB
Straks var jeg bortrykket i ånden, og se, en trone var satt i himmelen, og det satt en på tronen.
OTB
Straks var jeg i Ånden, og se, en trone sto i himmelen, og det satt en på tronen.
B1930
Straks var jeg bortrykket i ånden, og se, en trone var satt i himmelen, og det satt en på tronen.

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  • Revelation 1:10

    On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

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  • 1 Kings 22:19

    Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.

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  • Isaiah 6:1

    In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

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  • Ezekiel 3:12–14

    Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: ‘Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!’

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  • Ezekiel 1:26

    Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.

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  • Revelation 5:1

    Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.

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  • Revelation 4:5

    From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.

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  • Revelation 5:13

    And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”

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