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Contemporary English Version

Revelation 7:11

The angels who stood around the throne knelt in front of it with their faces to the ground. The elders and the four living creatures knelt there with them. Then they all worshiped God

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Animals;   Elder;   Jesus Continued;   Praise;   Righteous;   Thankfulness;   Throne;   Thompson Chain Reference - Angels;   Gratitude-Ingratitude;   Heavenly;   Praise;   Worship;   Worshippers;   The Topic Concordance - Following;   Hunger;   Service;   Thirst;   Tribulation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Angels;   Excellency and Glory of Christ, the;   Thanksgiving;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Angels;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Revelation, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Angels (2);   Heaven;   Israel;   Tribes ;   Type;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elders;   Lamb;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gold;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Creature, Living;   Immortal;   Revelation of John:;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All the angels stood around the throne, and along with the elders and the four living creatures they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
King James Version (1611)
And all the Angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders, and the foure beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
King James Version
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
New American Standard Bible
And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
New Century Version
All the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures. They all bowed down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
English Standard Version
And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Berean Standard Bible
And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and fell before the throne upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Easy-to-Read Version
The elders and the four living beings were there. All the angels were standing around them and the throne. The angels bowed down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the Angels stoode rounde about the throne, and about the Elders, and the foure beastes, and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
George Lamsa Translation
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before his throne on their faces, and worshipped God.
Good News Translation
All the angels stood around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures. Then they threw themselves face downward in front of the throne and worshiped God,
Lexham English Bible
And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Literal Translation
And all the angels and of the elders and of the four living creatures stood around the throne. And they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,
Amplified Bible
And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the [twenty-four] elders and the four living creatures; and they fell to their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
American Standard Version
And all the angels were standing round about the throne, and about the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Bible in Basic English
And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying,
Hebrew Names Version
All the angels were standing around the throne, the Zakenim, and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,
International Standard Version
All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshiped God,Revelation 4:6;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And all the angels stood around the throne, and the presbyters, and the four living-ones; and they fell before his throne upon their faces, and worshipped Aloha,
Murdock Translation
And all the angels stood around the throne and the Elders and the four Animals; and they fell upon their faces before his throne, and worshipped God,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the angels stoode in the compasse of the throne, and of the elders, & of the foure beastes, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshypped God,
English Revised Version
And all the angels were standing round about the throne, and about the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
World English Bible
All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And all the angels stood round about the throne and the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God saying, Amen:
Weymouth's New Testament
All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle aungels `stoden al aboute the trone, and the eldre men, and the foure beestis. And thei fellen doun in the siyt of the trone, on her faces, and worschipiden God, and seiden, Amen!
Update Bible Version
And all the angels were standing round about the throne, and [about] the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the angels stood around the throne, and [about] the elders and the four living beings, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,
New English Translation
And all the angels stood there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground before the throne and worshiped God,
New King James Version
All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
New Living Translation
And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living beings. And they fell before the throne with their faces to the ground and worshiped God.
New Life Bible
Then all of the angels standing around the throne and around the leaders and the four living beings got down on their faces before God and worshiped Him.
New Revised Standard
And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, all the messengers, were standing round about the throne and the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell down before the throne upon their faces, and rendered homage unto God,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the angels stood round about the throne and the ancients and the four living creatures. And they fell down before the throne upon their faces and adored God,
Revised Standard Version
And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And all the angelles stode in the compase of the seate and of the elders and of the iiii. bestes and fel before the seat on their faces and worshipped god
Young's Literal Translation
And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all the angels stode in the compase of the seate, and of the elders and of the foure beastes, and fell before ye seat on their faces, and worshipped God,
Mace New Testament (1729)
and all the angels who stood round about the throne, and about the elders, and the four animals fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying, amen:
Simplified Cowboy Version
All the angels, the four living creatures, and the old bosses all threw themselves on the ground in front of the throne and worshiped God.

Contextual Overview

1After this I saw four angels. Each one was standing on one of the earth's four corners. The angels held back the four winds, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. These angels had also been given the power to harm the earth and the sea. Then I saw another angel come up from where the sun rises in the east, and he was ready to put the mark of the living God on people. He shouted to the four angels, 3 "Don't harm the earth or the sea or any tree! Wait until I have marked the foreheads of the servants of our God." 4 Then I heard how many people had been marked on the forehead. There were one hundred forty-four thousand, and they came from every tribe of Israel: 5 12,000 from Judah, 12,000 from Reuben, 12,000 from Gad, 6 12,000 from Asher, 12,000 from Naphtali, 12,000 from Manasseh, 7 12,000 from Simeon, 12,000 from Levi, 12,000 from Issachar, 8 12,000 from Zebulun, 12,000 from Joseph, and 12,000 from Benjamin. 9 After this, I saw a large crowd with more people than could be counted. They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood before the throne and before the Lamb. They wore white robes and held palm branches in their hands, 10 as they shouted, "Our God, who sits upon the throne, has the power to save his people, and so does the Lamb." 11 The angels who stood around the throne knelt in front of it with their faces to the ground. The elders and the four living creatures knelt there with them. Then they all worshiped God

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all: Revelation 4:6, Revelation 5:11-13, Revelation 19:4-6, Psalms 103:20, Psalms 103:21, Psalms 148:1, Psalms 148:2

and fell: Revelation 11:16

and worshipped: Revelation 4:10, Revelation 15:4, Revelation 19:4, Revelation 22:9, Psalms 45:11, Psalms 97:7, Matthew 4:10, John 5:23, Hebrews 1:6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 9:24 - they shouted Numbers 14:5 - General Nehemiah 8:6 - with their faces Psalms 69:34 - Let Isaiah 6:2 - stood 1 Corinthians 4:9 - and to men 2 Thessalonians 1:10 - to be glorified Revelation 4:4 - four and twenty Revelation 4:9 - when Revelation 15:3 - and the song Revelation 22:1 - proceeding

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
And that's what happened. God made the dome
Genesis 6:17
I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.
Genesis 7:5
Noah was six hundred years old when he went into the boat to escape the flood, and he did everything the Lord had told him to do. His wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law all went inside with him.
Genesis 7:8
He obeyed God and took a male and a female of each kind of animal and bird into the boat with him.
Genesis 7:11
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.
Genesis 7:24
A hundred fifty days later, the water started going down.
2 Kings 7:2
The chief officer there with the king replied, "I don't believe it! Even if the Lord sent a rainstorm, it couldn't produce that much grain by tomorrow." "You will see it happen, but you won't eat any of the food," Elisha warned him.
2 Kings 7:19
But the officer refused to believe that even the Lord could do that. So Elisha warned him that he would see it happen, but would not eat any of the food.
Job 28:4
They dig tunnels in distant, unknown places, where they dangle by ropes.
Psalms 33:7
He scooped up the ocean and stored the water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the angels stood round about the throne,.... The holy and elect angels, even all of them, the ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, the innumerable company of them, who are represented in the same position; :-;

and [about] the elders, and the four beasts; the churches and ministers; yea, round about the great multitude before mentioned, the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; whose guardians they will be, and to whom they will always be ministering spirits.

And fell before the throne on their faces: in token of submission and reverence:

and worshipped God; by celebrating the perfections of his nature, and ascribing to him the glory of all his works.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And all the angels stood round about the throne - notes on Revelation 5:11.

And about the elders - notes on Revelation 4:4.

And the four beasts - notes on Revelation 4:6. The meaning is, that the angels stood in the outer circle, or outside of the elders and the four living creatures. The redeemed, it is manifest, occupied the inner circle, and were near the throne, though their precise location is not mentioned. The angels sympathize with the church redeemed and triumphant, as they did with the church in its conflicts and trials, and they now appropriately unite with that church in adoring and praising God. They see in that redemption new displays of the character of God, and they rejoice that that church is rescued from its troubles, and is now brought triumphant to heaven.

And fell before the throne on their faces - The usual position of profound adoration, Revelation 4:10; Revelation 5:8.

And worshipped God - notes on Revelation 5:11-12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 7:11. All the angels, &c.] As there is joy in the presence of God among these holy spirits when one sinner repents, no wonder that they take such an interest in the gathering together of such innumerable multitudes who are fully saved from their sins.


 
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