Revelation 6:13
11 Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.
12 And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
14 The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
- KJV
- And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
- WEB
- The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
- ASV
- and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind.
- DARBY
- and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth, as a fig tree, shaken by a great wind, casts its unseasonable figs.
- BLB
- and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs being shaken by a great wind.
- ÅB
- og stjernene på himmelen falt ned på jorden, slik som et fikentre kaster sine umodne fikener ned når det ristes av en sterk vind.
- OTB
- og himmelens stjerner falt til jorden, som et fikentre kaster sine umodne fiken når det rystes av en sterk vind.
- B1930
- og stjernene på himmelen falt ned på jorden, likesom et fikentre kaster sine umodne fikener ned når det rystes av en sterk vind.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 34:4
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
Read in contextMatthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
Read in contextRevelation 9:1
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
Read in contextRevelation 8:10–12
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Read in contextEzekiel 32:7
When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
Read in contextDaniel 8:10
It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth, and trampled them.
Read in contextIsaiah 7:2
When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
Read in contextLuke 21:25
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
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