Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Bible References

Four angels

Revelation 4:6
and before the throne was as it were a sea of glass like crystal; and in the midst of the throne and about the throne were four living ones [cherubs] full of eyes before and behind.
Revelation 9:14
saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Unbind the four angels bound by the river, the great Euphrates.
Matthew 24:31
And he shall send his angels with a loud sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from the one end of heaven to the other.
Mark 13:27
And then shall he send his angels and gather together the elect, from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

Holding

Matthew 8:26
And he said to them, Why are you afraid, men of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the lake, and there was a great calm.
Matthew 24:31
And he shall send his angels with a loud sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from the one end of heaven to the other.

The wind

Revelation 6:6
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four cherubs, saying, A choenix [a quart] of wheat for a denarius [14 cents], and three choenices of barley for a denarius; and injure not the oil and wine.
Revelation 9:4
And it was told them not to injure the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but the men who had not the seal of God on their foreheads.