Revelation 8:6
New International Version
Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

New Living Translation
Then the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to blow their mighty blasts.

English Standard Version
Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

Berean Standard Bible
And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

Berean Literal Bible
And the seven angels having the seven trumpets prepared themselves, that they might sound the trumpets.

King James Bible
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

New King James Version
So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

New American Standard Bible
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

NASB 1995
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

NASB 1977
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

Amplified Bible
Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them [initiating the judgments].

Christian Standard Bible
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

American Standard Version
And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the seven Angels, with whom were the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound.

Contemporary English Version
The seven angels now got ready to blow their trumpets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the seven angels, who had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound the trumpet.

English Revised Version
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The seven angels who had the seven trumpets got ready to blow them.

Good News Translation
Then the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

International Standard Version
The seven angels who had the seven trumpets got ready to blow them.

Literal Standard Version
And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets prepared themselves that they may sound the trumpets;

Majority Standard Bible
And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

New American Bible
The seven angels who were holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

NET Bible
Now the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made ready to blow them.

New Heart English Bible
The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Weymouth New Testament
Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made preparations for blowing them.

World English Bible
The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Young's Literal Translation
And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets did prepare themselves that they may sound;

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Context
The First Four Trumpets
5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. 6And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them. 7Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.…

Cross References
Matthew 26:17
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?"

Revelation 8:2
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.


Treasury of Scripture

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

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Revelation 8:2
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

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Revelation 8
1. At the opening of the seventh seal,
2. Seven angels have seven trumpets given them.
6. Four of them sound their trumpets and great plagues follow.
9. Another angel puts incense to the prayers of the saints on the golden altar.














(6) And the seven angels . . .--Translate, And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves that they might sound. The angels raised their trumpets to their mouths, ready to blow. The sounding of the trumpets introduced the series of startling events (or providences, as we sometimes call them) which serve to arrest men's attention, and remind them that there is a kingdom which cannot be shaken. Such events are landing-stages in the great advancing progress of Christ's kingdom. It may be well to remind those who are desirous of actual and limited historical fulfilments which correspond with the features of the several visions, that the aim of the visions seems to be to give the seer, and through him the Church at large, some idea of the general kind of events which ever mark the decay of the kingdom of wrong and the growth of the kingdom of our Lord. It is to this consummation the visions of the trumpets lead us. We are to see the destruction of those who destroy the earth, and the establishment of the kingdom of Him who will reign in righteousness (Revelation 11:15-18). This great consummation is to be achieved by slow and painful steps. "Wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom?" is the question answered by the seals. "How wilt thou restore the kingdom?" is the question answered by the trumpets. In both cases the answer is similar. These great results are not and cannot be attained in the quick ways human impatience would suggest. The history of the world is not to be folded up in a hurry, for that history is a development and a discipline; it is not only the consummation which is to be desired: the steps to that end are salutary, though painful. The chastisement which is not joyous but grievous may be the best means of bringing to the world the peaceable fruits of righteousness;--

"And man, unfriended, faltering on the way,

Must learn to weep before he learns to pray."

And this wholesome lesson of tears must be taught the world, in the slow and bitter progress of a human history marked not by one judgment but by many. The fulfilment, then, of these prophetic visions is not exhausted in one event, however nearly its features may correspond with the character of the vision.

Verse 6. - And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. This verse takes up and continues the narrative of ver. 2; the intervening passage serves to indicate the immediate cause of the judgments now about to descend, viz. the "prayers of the saints" (ver. 4). (On the number seven, as signifying a complete number, see Revelation 1:4; Revelation 5:1, etc.) Cf. the sounding of the trumpets at Jericho, and the other passages quoted in the comment on ver. 2.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
And
Καὶ (Kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

seven
ἑπτὰ (hepta)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2033: Seven. A primary number; seven.

angels
ἄγγελοι (angeloi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 32: From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor.

with
ἔχοντες (echontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

the
τὰς (tas)
Article - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

seven
ἑπτὰ (hepta)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 2033: Seven. A primary number; seven.

trumpets
σάλπιγγας (salpingas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 4536: A trumpet, the sound of a trumpet. Perhaps from salos; a trumpet.

prepared
ἡτοίμασαν (hētoimasan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2090: To make ready, prepare. From hetoimos; to prepare.

to
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

sound [them].
σαλπίσωσιν (salpisōsin)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4537: To sound a trumpet. From salpigx; to trumpet, i.e. Sound a blast.


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