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Revelation 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.

2 The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

3 And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

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BSB
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.
KJV
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
WEB
The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
ASV
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.
DARBY
And the fifth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and I saw a star out of the heaven fallen to the earth; and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss.
BLB
And the fifth angel sounded [his] trumpet, and I saw a star having fallen out of heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the Abyss was given to it.
ÅB
Og den femte engel blåste i basun, og jeg så en stjerne som var falt fra himmelen ned på jorden, og nøkkelen til avgrunnens brønn ble gitt den.
OTB
Den femte engelen blåste i sin basun, og jeg så en stjerne som hadde falt fra himmelen til jorden. Til ham ble gitt nøkkelen til avgrunnens brønn.
B1930
Og den femte engel blåste i basun, og jeg så en stjerne som var falt fra himmelen ned på jorden, og nøkkelen til avgrunnens brønn blev gitt den.

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  • Revelation 8:10

    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.

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  • Romans 10:7

    or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

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  • Revelation 9:2

    The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

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  • 2 Timothy 3:1–5

    But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

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  • Revelation 1:18

    the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

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  • Revelation 9:11–13

    They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.

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  • Luke 8:31

    And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

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  • Revelation 17:8

    The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.

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