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Their chests looked like iron breastplates. The sound their wings made was like the noise of many horses and chariots hurrying into battle. 10 The locusts had tails with stingers like scorpions. The power they had to give people pain for five months was in their tails. 11 They had a ruler, who was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon.[a] In Greek it is Apollyon.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 9:11 Abaddon A Hebrew name meaning “death” or “destruction.” See Job 26:6 and Ps. 88:11.
  2. Revelation 9:11 Apollyon A name that means “destroyer.”

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