Revelation 9:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. ”

Revelation 9:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And to them it was given - There is here the same indefiniteness as in the former verse, the impersonal verb being here also used. The writer does not say by whom this power was given, whether by...
Revelation 9:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth Trumpet or the First Woe. The seer sees a star fallen on the earth. The star seems to represent a person, possibly Satan ( cf. Luke 10:18 ). abyss: the word properly means bottomless,...
Revelation 9:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

that... not. As in Revelation 9:4 . tormented. Greek. basanizo, literally to test (metals) by the touchstone, then to torture. Occurs: Revelation 11:10 ; Revelation 12:2 (pained); Revelat...
Revelation 9:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. To them it was gi...
Revelation 9:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But that they should be tormented five months, &c.— But that they should torment, &c. one hundred and fifty years, from the year 612 to the year 762. See on Revelation 9:10 . As the Sara...
Revelation 9:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. They ... th...
Revelation 9:5 - 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 9:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And to them... — Better, And it was given to them that they should not kill them (i.e., those who had not the seal of God in their foreheads), but that they should be tortured five months. The...
Revelation 9:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Out of the Smoke of the Pit” Revelation 9:1-11 This chapter reminds us of the prophet Joel who, under the imagery of a swarm of locusts, depicted the coming invasion of hostile nations. Whethe...
Revelation 9:5 - 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 9:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) 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. (2) And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke ou...
Revelation 9:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And to them it was given that they should not kill them ,.... As the power of the locusts was limited with respect to the persons they should hurt, so with regard also to the mischief they should do...
Revelation 9:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Ver. 5. And t...
Revelation 9:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And it was commanded that they should not hurt the grass, &c. This verse demonstrates that they were not natural, but symbolical locusts. The like injunctions were given to the Arabian officers...
Revelation 9:5 - 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 9:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Seven Trumpets. A. D. 95. 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven...
Revelation 9:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Supposing the Saracens and Turks here meant by the locusts, here arise two difficulties: 1. How it can be said of them, that they had no power to kill, but only torment men. 2. How their tim...
Revelation 9:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. And in those days...
Revelation 9:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FIFTH AND SIXTH WOE-TRUMPETS CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 9:1 . Fall .—Better, “fallen”; that had fallen. A star would seem to represent a false teacher. Some think Mahomet is...
Revelation 9:5 - 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 9:5 - 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 9:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.
Revelation 9:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 5:18-22 ; Daniel 7:6 ; Job 2:6 ; John 19:11 ; Revelation 11:7 ; Revelation 13:5 ; Revelation 13:7 ; Revelation 9:10 ; Revelation 9:3
Revelation 9:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Not to kill them — Very few of them were killed: in general, they were imprisoned and variously tormented.

Revelation 9:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Revelation 9:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Revelation 9:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Revelation 9:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Revelation 9:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Revelation 9:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Revelation 9:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Revelation 9:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Revelation 9:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Revelation 9:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes