"And they had a king over them, {which is} the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue {is} Abaddon,…" — Revelation 9:11

Revelation 9:11 · KJV

“And they had a king over them, {which is} the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue {is} Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath {his} name Apollyon. {Apollyon: that is to say, A destroyer}”

— Revelation 9:11

Verse 10

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power {was} to hurt men five months.

Verse 12

One woe is past; {and}, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Revelation 9 — Context

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings {was} as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power {was} to hurt men five months.

And they had a king over them, {which is} the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue {is} Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath {his} name Apollyon. {Apollyon: that is to say, A destroyer}

One woe is past; {and}, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Cross References

Job 26:6

Hell {is} naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Revelation 9:1-2

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.

John 14:30

Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

Ephesians 2:2

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

2 Corinthians 4:4

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

John 16:11

Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

John 8:44

Ye are of {your} father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. {of his own: or, from his own will or disposition}

1 John 4:4

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.