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Revelation 15:7

One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   God;   Plague;   Seven;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Vials;   The Topic Concordance - Wrath;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Order;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Living Creatures;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cherub (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Wrath, Wrath of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Vial;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gold ;   Numbers;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Temple, the;   Vials;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Old - golden;   Vial;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Creature, Living;   Four;   Number;   Print;   Retribution;   Revelation of John:;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
And one of the foure beasts gaue vnto the seuen Angels, seuen golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liueth for euer and euer.
King James Version
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
New American Standard Bible
And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
New Century Version
Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the anger of God, who lives forever and ever.
English Standard Version
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
Berean Standard Bible
Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
Contemporary English Version
One of the four living creatures gave each of the seven angels a bowl made of gold. These bowls were filled with the anger of God who lives forever and ever.
Complete Jewish Bible
One of the four living beings gave to the seven angels seven gold bowls filled with the fury of God, who lives forever and ever.
Darby Translation
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls, full of the fury of God, who lives to the ages of ages.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then one of the four living beings gave seven golden bowls to the seven angels. The bowls were filled with the anger of God, who lives forever and ever.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And one of the foure beastes gaue vnto the seuen Angels seuen golden vials full of the wrath of God, which liueth for euermore.
George Lamsa Translation
And one of the four beasts gave to the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever.
Good News Translation
Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven gold bowls full of the anger of God, who lives forever and ever.
Lexham English Bible
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever,
Literal Translation
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the anger of God living to the ages of the ages.
Amplified Bible
Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath and indignation of God, who lives forever and ever.
American Standard Version
And one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Bible in Basic English
And one of the four beasts gave to the seven angels seven gold vessels full of the wrath of God, who is living for ever and ever.
Hebrew Names Version
One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
International Standard Version
One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven gold bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.1 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 4:6,9; 10:6;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And one of the four living-ones gave to the seven angels SEVEN VIALS of gold, which were full of the wrath of Aloha, who liveth for ever and ever.
Murdock Translation
And one of the four Animals gave to those seven angels seven cups of gold, full of the wrath of God who liveth for ever and ever.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And one of the foure beastes, gaue vnto the seuen angels seuen golden vials, full of the wrath of God which lyueth for euermore.
English Revised Version
And one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
World English Bible
One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden phials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever.
Weymouth's New Testament
And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven bowls of gold, full of the anger of God who lives until the Ages of the Ages.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And oon of the foure beestis yaf to the seuene aungels seuene goldun viols, ful of the wraththe of God, that lyueth in to worldis of worldis.
Update Bible Version
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
Webster's Bible Translation
And one of the four living beings gave to the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
New English Translation
Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,
New King James Version
Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.
New Living Translation
Then one of the four living beings handed each of the seven angels a gold bowl filled with the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
New Life Bible
Then one of the four living beings gave to each of the seven angels a jar made of gold. These jars were filled with the anger of God Who lives forever.
New Revised Standard
Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, one of the four living creatures, gave, unto the seven messengers, seven golden bowls, full of the wrath of God who liveth unto the ages of ages.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Revised Standard Version
And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And one of the fowre beestes gave vnto ye seve angells vii. golden vialles full of ye wrath of God which lyveth for ever more.
Young's Literal Translation
and one of the four living creatures did give to the seven messengers seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who is living to the ages of the ages;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And one of the foure beestes gaue vnto the seuen angelles seuen golden vialles, full of the wrath of God which liueth for euermore.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and one of the four animals gave to the seven angels, seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Simplified Cowboy Version
One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven gold bowls that contained all of God's anger.

Contextual Overview

5After this I looked, and the heavenly temple—the tabernacle of testimony—was opened. 6Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes wrapped around their chests. 7One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. 8Then the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

one: Revelation 4:6-9

seven: Revelation 5:8, Revelation 16:2-21, Revelation 17:1, Revelation 21:9, Psalms 75:8, Jeremiah 25:15

who: Revelation 4:9, Revelation 10:6, 1 Thessalonians 1:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:4 - seven times Daniel 10:5 - loins Mark 13:27 - shall he Revelation 10:3 - seven Revelation 11:18 - and thy Revelation 15:1 - is filled Revelation 16:1 - and pour Revelation 19:4 - the four

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram:
Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, “Lord God, what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Genesis 15:4
Now the word of the Lord came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
Genesis 15:7
He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Genesis 15:8
But he said, “Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?”
Genesis 15:15
But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:17
When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals.
Psalms 105:11
“I will give the land of Canaan to youas your inherited portion.”
Psalms 105:42
For he remembered his holy promiseto Abraham his servant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And one of the four beasts,.... Or living creatures: now we hear of them, as of the four and twenty elders, under the blowing of the seventh trumpet, Revelation 11:16 with which this vision is contemporary; these living creatures are the ministers of the Gospel;

Revelation 11:16- : and this was one, or the first of them, who was like a lion, for fortitude and courage, and whose voice was as the noise of thunder, Revelation 4:7 and so fitly represents those ministers who shall give out the vials of God's wrath: not any particular person is designed, who shall be at this time; and much less Luke the evangelist, as Lord Napier thinks; nor Peter, who prophesied of the last time, 2 Peter 3:10 as Grotius; but a set of Gospel ministers, comparable to one of the living creatures John had before seen; of whom it is said, that they

gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever: these seven vials are for the seven last plagues to be put into, and out of which they are to be taken, or poured, and inflicted; see Revelation 21:9 hence it appears, that the seven plagues, and the wrath of God, are the same thing, and both design God's judgments upon antichrist; and these being expressed by "vials", which are measures, and large ones, show the large abundance and plenteous effusion of God's wrath, and the secret, sudden, and irresistible power of it; and yet that it will be poured out in measure, according to righteous judgment, and therefore it is put into vials; and these golden ones, expressive of the purity, holiness, and justice of the divine proceedings: and it will be very terrible; it will be, not the wrath of men, but of God, and a cup of the fierceness of his wrath; it will be the wrath of the living God, of him that lives for ever, and as he is, such will his wrath be; it will continue for ever, for this wrath will issue in the everlasting destruction of antichrist: so the wrath of God is signified by a wine cup of fury, Jeremiah 25:15 and that destruction, and those plagues which God designed to bring upon Pharaoh, are by Jonathan ben Uzziel, in his Targum on Genesis 40:12 called דרוגזא

פיילא, "a vial of wrath", which he should drink of: and in the pouring out of there seven vials, there is in some of them a manifest allusion to the plagues of Egypt. So the cup of trembling, in Isaiah 51:17 is by the Targumists called פילי, "a vial", and also "the cup of fury",

Isaiah 51:22 and that these vials were not small narrow mouthed vessels, but large broad mouthed ones, and more properly basins or bowls, is manifest from the use of the word with Jewish writers. The dishes on which the loaves of the shewbread were set, each of which loaves was ten hands breadth long, and five broad q, are by the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem on Exodus 25:29 called פיילת, "vials"; and so the chargers offered at the dedication of the tabernacle, Numbers 7:13 are, by the same, rendered vials, which weighed 130 shekels; and so the silver bowl they offered, is, by Josephus r, called a vial: the bowls in Amos 6:6 are, by the Targum there, said to be "silver vials". The lordly dish brought by Jael to Sisera, Judges 5:25 the Targum calls the vial of the mighty ones; and the earthen vessels used at the trial of the suspected wife, and at the cleansing of the leper, are both by Jewish writers said to be "vials" s. Now these vials were given to the seven angels by one of the living creatures, the ministers of the word; from whence it seems that these angels design members of churches, as distinct from ministers; and may intend civil magistrates, and very principal ones, as kings of the earth, who, in this state of things, and times, will belong to the churches, and will be the instruments of destroying antichrist: and these vials may be said to be given to them by the ministers, since they will execute this vengeance in consequence of their prayers, and the churches', called vials full of odours, Revelation 5:8 and because these great men will be stirred up by the ministers of the Gospel, and by their ministrations, to do this work; see Revelation 18:4.

q Misn. Menachot, c. 11. sect. 4, 5. r Antiqu. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 10. s Misn. Sota, c. 2. sect. 2. Joseph Antiqu. l. 3. c. 11. sect. 6. Misn. Negaim, c. 10. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And one of the four beasts - See the notes on Revelation 4:6-7. Which one of the four is not mentioned. From the explanation given of the design of the representation of the “four beasts,” or living creatures, in the notes on Revelation 4:6-7, it would seem that the meaning here is, that the great principles of that divine government would be illustrated in the events which are now to occur. In events that were so closely connected with the honor of God and the triumph of his cause on the earth, there was a propriety in the representation that these living creatures, symbolizing the great principles of divine administration, would be particularly interested.

Gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials - The word used here - φιάλη phialē - means properly, “a bowl or goblet, having more breadth than depth” (Robinson, Lexicon). Our word vial, though derived from this, means rather a thin long bottle of glass, used particularly by apothecaries and druggists. The word would be better rendered by “bowl” or “goblet,” and probably the representation here was of such bowls as were used in the temple service. See the notes on Revelation 5:8. They are called in Revelation 16:1, “vials of the wrath of God”; and here they are said to be “full of the wrath of God.” The allusion seems to be to a drinking cup or goblet filled with poison, and given to persons to drink - an allusion drawn from one of the methods of punishment in ancient times. See the notes on Revelation 14:10. These vials or goblets thus became emblems of divine wrath, to be inflicted on the beast and his image.

Full of the wrath of God - Filled with what represented his wrath; that is, they seemed to be filled with a poisonous mixture, which being poured upon the earth, the sea, the rivers, the sun, the seat of the beast, the river Euphrates, and into the air, was followed by severe divine judgments on this great anti-Christian power. See Revelation 16:2-4, Revelation 16:8,Revelation 16:10, Revelation 16:12, Revelation 16:17.

Who liveth forever and ever - The eternal God. The particular object in referring to this attribute here appears to be, that though there may seem to be delay in the execution of his purposes, yet they will be certainly accomplished, as he is the ever-living and unchangeable God. He is not under a necessity of abandoning his purposes, like people, if they are not soon accomplished.


 
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