Revelation 9:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Revelation 9:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the number of the army of the horsemen - It is to be observed here that the strength of the army seemed to be cavalry. In the former plagues there is no distinct mention of horsemen; but here...
Revelation 9:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Sixth Trumpet or the Second Woe. The loosing of the four angels of death, and the slaughter of a third part of the human race. Revelation 9:13 . the horns: the corners. the golden altar:...
Revelation 9:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

army . armies. two... thousand. Literally two myriads of myriads,. literal number which John heard and recorded. Compare Revelation 7:4 . See App-197. and. Omit.
Revelation 9:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Two hundred thousand thousand - Δυο μυριαδες μυριαδων· Two myriads of myriads; that is...
Revelation 9:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The number of the army, &c.— A description is here given of the forces, and of the means and instruments bywhich the Othmans should effect the ruin of the Eastern empire. Their army is describe...
Revelation 9:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Compare with these 200,000,000, Psalms 68:17 ; Daniel 7:10 . The hosts are evid...
Revelation 9:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets These herald woes upon the ungodly and idolatrous, inflicted both by demonic and by human agency. 1-12. The fifth trumpet initiates the first of the three woes. A s...
Revelation 9:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the number... — Translate, And the number of the armies of the cavalry was two myriads of myriads. I heard the number of them. The writer heard, perhaps from some herald angel, the number of...
Revelation 9:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Impenitent in Spite of All Revelation 9:12-21 The river Euphrates possibly stands for nations and hordes of men emanating from that region; and these verses are held by a large number of exp...
Revelation 9:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the procedure of judgment takes a new form, passing from the material to the spiritual. The loosing of Satan is suggestive of the manifestation of satanic agency...
Revelation 9:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(13) And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, (14) Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which ar...
Revelation 9:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the number of the army of the horsemen ,.... This shows that the four angels before mentioned were men, and design generals of armies, or armies of men, even of horsemen; and manifestly point at...
Revelation 9:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Ver. 16. Two hundred thousand thousand ] Not so many at any one time, but in sever...
Revelation 9:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The number of the army of horsemen were two hundred thousand A description is here given of the forces, and of the means and instruments by which the Othmans should effect the ruin of the eastern e...
Revelation 9:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth Trumpet: A Demon Infestation (vv. 1-12) The sounding of the fifth trumpet discloses "a star fallen from heaven:" it is already fallen (v. 1). This is the same star that fell under...
Revelation 9:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Seventh Trumpet. A. D. 95. 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the...
Revelation 9:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He saith nothing of the infantry, but leaves us to conjecture how great that must be, from the number of the horse; we must not think there was precisely this number, but the meaning is, that the arm...
Revelation 9:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the numbers of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million, I heard the number of them. And this is how I saw the horse in the vision, and those who sat on them, they have breastplates as...
Revelation 9:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 9:13 . Sixth angel sounded .—This woe is an invasion of foreign nations coming out of the East, and causing everywhere ruin and disaster. Revelation 9:...
Revelation 9:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:1 . The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star, the vile impostor Mahomed, fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit: it should read, the ke...
Revelation 9:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; a star from heaven fallen unto the earth (Revised Version); not saw a star fal...
Revelation 9:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The sounding of the sixth trumpet:
Revelation 9:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 11:40 ; Daniel 7:10 ; Ezekiel 23:6 ; Ezekiel 38:4 ; Psalms 68:17 ; Revelation 7:4

Revelation 9:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Revelation 9:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Revelation 9:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Revelation 9:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Revelation 9:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Revelation 9:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Revelation 9:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Revelation 9:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Revelation 9:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Revelation 9:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge