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Lexham English Bible

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Brimstone;   Cavalry;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Vision;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Seals;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of the lord;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Mahometanism;   Order;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Sulfur;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brimstone;   Plagues of Egypt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brimstone ;   Numbers;   Plague;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Abaddon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Revelation of John:;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues—by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths.
King James Version (1611)
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouthes.
King James Version
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
New American Standard Bible
A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire, the smoke, and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
New Century Version
A third of all the people on earth were killed by these three terrible disasters coming out of the horses' mouths: the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur.
English Standard Version
By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.
Berean Standard Bible
A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and brimstone that proceeded from their mouths.
Contemporary English Version
One-third of all people were killed by the three terrible troubles caused by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur.
Complete Jewish Bible
It was these three plagues that killed a third of mankind — the fire, smoke and sulfur issuing from the horses' mouths.
Darby Translation
By these three plagues were the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which goes out of their mouths.
Easy-to-Read Version
A third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues coming out of the horses' mouths: the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of these three was the thirde part of men killed, that is, of the fire, and of the smoke, and of the brimstone, which came out of their mouthes.
George Lamsa Translation
And by these three plagues, was the third part of men slain, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
Good News Translation
A third of the human race was killed by those three plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur coming out of the horses' mouths.
Literal Translation
By these three were killed the third part of men, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone coming out of their mouths.
Amplified Bible
A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came from the mouths of the horses.
American Standard Version
By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.
Bible in Basic English
By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.
Hebrew Names Version
By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
International Standard Version
By these three plagues - the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths - one-third of humanity was killed.
Etheridge Translation
And by these three plagues were the third of men killed; from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the sulphur which went out of their mouths.
Murdock Translation
And by these three plagues, a third part of the men were slain; [fn] by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the sulphur, which issued from their mouths.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And of these three was the third part of men kylled [that is to say] of fire, smoke and brymstone, which proceaded out of the mouthes of them.
English Revised Version
By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.
World English Bible
By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
By these three plagues were the third part of men killed, by the fire, and the smoke, and the brimstone which went out of their mouths.
Weymouth's New Testament
By these three plagues a third part of mankind were destroyed--by the fire and the smoke, and by the sulphur which came from their mouths.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Of these thre plagis the thridde part of men was slayn, of the fier, and of the smoke, and of the brymston, that camen out of the mouth of hem.
Update Bible Version
By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.
Webster's Bible Translation
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
New English Translation
A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths.
New King James Version
By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed--by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
New Living Translation
One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues—by the fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses.
New Life Bible
One-third part of all men was killed by the fire and smoke and sulphur that came out of their mouths.
New Revised Standard
By these three plagues a third of humankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
by these three plagues, were slain, the third part of mankind, by reason of the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, that proceedeth out of their mouths;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths.
Revised Standard Version
By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulphur issuing from their mouths.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And of these iii. was the thyrde parte of men kylled: that is to saye of fyre smoke and brymstone which proceded out of the mouthes of them:
Young's Literal Translation
by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And of these thre was the thirde parte of men kylled: that is to saye, of fyre, smoke, and brymstone, which proceded out of the mouthes of the:
Mace New Testament (1729)
by these three the third part of men were killed, by the fire, by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
Simplified Cowboy Version
One out of every three people on earth were killed by these three plagues—fire, smoke, and sulfur which came out of the horse's mouths.

Contextual Overview

13 And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar that is before God 14 saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!" 15 And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity. 16 And the number of the troops of the cavalry was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. 17 And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them, who had fiery red and hyacinth-colored and sulphurous yellow breastplates, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulphur. 18 By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are similar in appearance to snakes, having heads, and with them they cause injury. 20 And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, in order not to worship the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk, 21 and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the third: Revelation 9:15, Revelation 9:17

Reciprocal: Isaiah 42:25 - he knew Revelation 6:8 - over Revelation 14:10 - be Revelation 16:8 - and power

Cross-References

Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put it on their shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see the nakedness of their father.
Genesis 9:25
And he said, "Cursed be Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers."
Genesis 9:27
May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him."
Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And by these three was the third part of men killed,.... The Alexandrian copy, and some others, the Complutensian edition, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, read, "by these three plagues": as the western Roman empire is in the preceding chapter frequently expressed by the third part of several things, see Revelation 8:7; so here the eastern Roman empire by the third part of men; vast numbers of the inhabitants of which were destroyed by the Turks, through the use of guns, out of which issued fire, smoke, and brimstone; and Constantinople, the metropolis of it, was taken in this way, as before observed, with the taking of which the empire ceased.

By the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths; that is, by the firing of guns.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By these three - Three things - explained immediately as referring to the fire, the smoke, and the brimstone.

Was the third part of men killed - See the notes on Revelation 8:7-12, on each of which verses we have notices of calamities that came upon the third part of the race, of the sea, of rivers, etc. We are not to suppose that this is to be taken literally, but the description is given as it appeared to John. Those immense numbers of horsemen would sweep over the world, and a full third part of the race of people would seem to fall before them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 9:18. By these three was the third part of men killed — That is, By these was great carnage made.


 
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