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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Revelation 8:2

And I saw the seven messengers which, before God, do stand; and there were given unto them seven trumpets.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Seven;   Thompson Chain Reference - Angels;   Seven;   The Topic Concordance - Seals;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Trumpet;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Seven;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Trumpets;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Incense;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beast;   Face;   Plagues of Egypt;   Raphael;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Enoch Book of;   Numbers;   Trump Trumpet ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Trumpets;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cherubim;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Angel;   Michael;   Number;   Revelation of John:;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God. They were given seven trumpets.
Revised Standard Version
Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And I sawe angelles stondynge before god and to them were geven vii. trompettes.
Hebrew Names Version
I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
New American Standard Bible
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
New Century Version
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God and to whom were given seven trumpets.
Update Bible Version
And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were given to them seven trumpets.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I saw the seven angels who stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
World English Bible
I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And I saw the seven angels which stand before God, and seven trumpets were given them.
Weymouth's New Testament
Then I saw the seven angels who are in the presence of God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y say seuene aungels stondinge in the siyt of God, and seuene trumpis weren youun to hem.
English Revised Version
And I saw the seven angels which stand before God; and there were given unto them seven trumpets.
Berean Standard Bible
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
Contemporary English Version
I noticed that the seven angels who stood before God were each given a trumpet.
Amplified Bible
Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
American Standard Version
And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were given unto them seven trumpets.
Bible in Basic English
And I saw the seven angels who had their place before God; and seven horns were given to them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven shofars.
Darby Translation
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
International Standard Version
Then I saw the seven angels who stand in God's presence, and seven trumpets were given to them.2 Chronicles 29:25-28; Matthew 18:10; Luke 1:19;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And I saw the seven angels who stood before Aloha, and there were given to them SEVEN TRUMPETS.
Murdock Translation
And I saw the seven angels, who stood before God; and to them were given, seven trumpets.
King James Version (1611)
And I sawe the seuen Angels which stood before God, and to them were giuen seuen trumpets.
New Living Translation
I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
New Life Bible
Then I saw the seven angels standing before God. They were given seven horns.
New Revised Standard
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
English Standard Version
Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I sawe the seuen Angels, which stoode before God, and to them were giuen seuen trumpets.
George Lamsa Translation
Then I saw the seven angels, who stood before God; and seven trumpets were given to them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God: and there were given to them seven trumpets.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I sawe the seuen angels standyng before God, and to them were geuen seuen trumpets.
Good News Translation
Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
Christian Standard Bible®
Then I saw the seven angels who stand in the presence of God; seven trumpets were given to them.
King James Version
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Lexham English Bible
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Literal Translation
And I saw the seven angels who stood before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Young's Literal Translation
and I saw the seven messengers who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I sawe seue angels stondinge before God, and to them were geuen seuen trompettes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Then I saw the seven angels who attend in the presence of God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
THE MESSAGE
I saw the Seven Angels who are always in readiness before God handed seven trumpets. Then another Angel, carrying a gold censer, came and stood at the Altar. He was given a great quantity of incense so that he could offer up the prayers of all the holy people of God on the Golden Altar before the Throne. Smoke billowed up from the incense-laced prayers of the holy ones, rose before God from the hand of the Angel.
New English Translation
Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
New King James Version
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Seven angels of the Lord were given seven bugles.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Contextual Overview

1 And, as soon as he opened the seventh seal, there came to be silence in heaven, as it were half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven messengers which, before God, do stand; and there were given unto them seven trumpets. 3 And, another messenger, came, and took his stand at the altar, having a censer of gold: and there was given unto him much incense, that he might give it unto the prayers of all the saints, upon the altar of gold that is before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense went up, with the prayers of the saints, out of the hand of the messenger before God. 5 And the messenger at once took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast unto the earth; and there came to be thunderings, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake. 6 And, the seven messengers who had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves, that they might sound.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

seven angels: Revelation 15:1, Revelation 16:1, Matthew 18:10, Luke 1:19

trumpets: Revelation 8:6-12, Revelation 9:1, Revelation 9:13, Revelation 9:14, Revelation 11:15, Numbers 10:1-10, 2 Chronicles 29:25-28, Amos 3:6-8

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:4 - seven times Isaiah 27:13 - the great Zechariah 4:10 - those 1 Corinthians 15:52 - last Revelation 10:1 - another

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.
Genesis 8:11
And the dove came in unto him at eventide, and lo! a newly sprouted olive-leaf, in her mouth, - so Noah knew that the waters had abated from off the earth.
Genesis 8:13
So it came to pass in the six hundred and first year at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters had dried up from off the earth, - and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked and lo! the face of the ground was dried.
Job 38:37
Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
Proverbs 8:28
When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;
Jonah 2:3
For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed.
Matthew 8:9
For, I also, am a man setunder authority, having under myself, soldiers, - and I say to this one, Go! and he goeth, and to another, Come! and he cometh, and, to my servant, Do this! and he doeth it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I saw the seven angels,.... Not the seven spirits of God, Revelation 1:4; their names, as well as their office, differ; nor the ministers of the word, though these are often called angels in this book, and blow the trumpet of the Gospel, and lift up their voice like a trumpet; but the angelic spirits, and these either evil ones, since they are the executioners of wrath and vengeance, and bring judgments on the earth; and who, are sometimes said to stand before God, 1 Kings 22:21; or rather good angels, who are sometimes ministers of divine wrath; see 2 Samuel 24:16; "seven" of them are mentioned, as being a proper number for the blowing of the seven trumpets, which would complete all the woes that were to come upon the world, and in allusion to the seven princes the eastern monarchs used to have continually about them, Esther 1:14, as it follows:

which stood before God; and denotes their nearness to him, and familiarity with him, they always behold his face; and their service and ministrations, and their readiness to execute his will: the allusion is to the two priests standing at the table of fat, with two silver trumpets in their hands, with which they blew, and another struck the cymbal, and the Levites sung, which was always done at the time of the daily sacrifice p:

and to them were given seven trumpets: everyone had one; and which were an emblem of those wars, and desolations, and calamities, which would come upon the empire, and upon the world, at the blowing of each of them; the trumpet being an alarm, preparing for, proclaiming, and introducing these things; Jeremiah 4:19; these are said to be given them; either by him that sat upon the throne, about which they were; or by the Lamb that opened the seal; and shows that they did nothing but what they had a commission and order to do. Here is manifestly an allusion to the priests and Levites blowing their trumpets at the close of the daily sacrifice, and at the offering of incense q as before observed.

p Misn. Tamid. c. 7. sect. 3. q Maimon. Hilch. Tamidin, c. 6. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God - Prof. Stuart supposes that by these angels are meant the “presence-angels” which he understands to be referred to, in Revelation 1:4, by the “seven spirits which are before the throne.” If, however, the interpretation of that passage above proposed, that it refers to the Holy Spirit, with reference to his multiplied agency and operations, be correct, then we must seek for another application of the phrase here. The only difficulty in applying it arises from the use of the article - “the seven angels” - τοὺς tous as if they were angels already referred to; and as there has been no previous mention of “seven angels,” unless it be in the phrase “the seven spirits which are before the throne,” in Revelation 1:4, it is argued that this must have been such a reference. But this interpretation is not absolutely necessary. John might use this language either because the angels had been spoken of before; or because it would be sufficiently understood, from the common use of language, who would be referred to - as we now might speak of “the seven members of the cabinet of the United States,” or “the thirty-one governors of the states of the Union,” though they had not been particularly mentioned; or he might speak of them as just then disclosed to his view, and because his meaning would be sufficiently definite by the circumstances which were to follow - their agency in blowing the trumpets.

It would be entirely in accordance with the usage of the article for one to say that he saw an army, and the commander-in-chief, and the four staff-officers, and the five bands of music, and the six companies of sappers and miners, etc. It is not absolutely necessary, therefore, to suppose that these angels had been before referred to. There is, indeed, in the use of the phrase “which stood before God,” the idea that they are to be regarded as permanently standing there, or that that is their proper place - as if they were angels who were particularly designated to this high service. Compare Luke 1:19; “I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God.” If this idea is involved in the phrase, then there is a sufficient reason why the article is used, though they had not before been mentioned.

And to them were given seven trumpets - One to each. By whom the trumpets were given is not said. It may be supposed to have been done by Him who sat on the throne. Trumpets were used then, as now, for various purposes; to summon an assembly; to muster the hosts of battle; to inspirit and animate troops in conflict. Here they are given to announce a series of important events producing great changes in the world as if God summoned and led on his hosts to accomplish his designs.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 8:2. The seven angels which stood before God — Probably the same as those called the seven Spirits which are before his throne, Revelation 1:4, where see the note. There is still an allusion here to the seven ministers of the Persian monarchs. See Tobit 12:15.


 
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