And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Parallel translations
- WEB I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
- KJV And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
- BSB And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
- NKJV And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
- NLT I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
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Quick answer
John sees seven angels who stand before God receive seven trumpets. A new cycle of God-ordained judgments is about to be announced.
Overview
These are exalted angels in God's immediate presence, entrusted with sounding the trumpets. In Scripture trumpets often herald God's action, warning, and judgment. Their commissioning signals that a fresh series of divine interventions in history is at hand.
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- Luke 1:19The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
- Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
- Amos 3:6–8Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
- Matt 18:10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
- Rev 8:6The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
- Rev 16:1I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”
- 2 Chr 29:25–28He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.
- Rev 9:13–14The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
- Rev 15:1I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
- Num 10:1–10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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