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New Century Version

Revelation 9:18

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.

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.
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.
Lexham English Bible
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.
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 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God. 14 The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Free the four angels who are tied at the great river Euphrates." 15 And they let loose the four angels who had been kept ready for this hour and day and month and year so they could kill a third of all people on the earth. 16 I heard how many troops on horses were in their army—two hundred million. 17 The horses and their riders I saw in the vision looked like this: They had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow like sulfur. The heads of the horses looked like heads of lions, with fire, smoke, and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 18 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. 19 The horses' power was in their mouths and in their tails; their tails were like snakes with heads, and with them they hurt people. 20 The other people who were not killed by these terrible disasters still did not change their hearts and turn away from what they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 These people did not change their hearts and turn away from murder or evil magic, from their sexual sins or stealing.

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 got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
Genesis 9:25
he said, "May there be a curse on Canaan! May he be the lowest slave to his brothers."
Genesis 9:27
May God give more land to Japheth. May Japheth live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan be their slave."
Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.
Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1:4
The sons of Noah were 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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