Revelation 9:14

¹² One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

¹³ And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

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: saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
KJV: Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
WEB: saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
ASV: one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.
DARBY: saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates.
BLB: saying to the sixth angel, the one having the trumpet, “Release the four angels, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.”

ÅB: og den sa til den sjette engel, han som hadde basunen: Løs de fire engler som er bundet ved den store elv Eufrat!
OTB: stemmen instruerte den sjette engelen med basunen: “Løs de fire englene som er bundet ved den store elven Eufrat.”
B1930: og den sa til den sjette engel, han som hadde basunen: Løs de fire engler som er bundet ved den store elv Eufrat!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Revelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
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Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
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Revelation 9:15
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.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
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Jeremiah 51:63
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
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Revelation 7:1
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
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Revelation 8:6
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
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Revelation 8:2
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
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