Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

An hour

Bible References

An hour

Revelation 9:5
Their mission was not to kill, but to cause awful agony for five months; and this agony was like that which a scorpion inflicts when it stings a man.

For to

Revelation 9:18
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.
Revelation 8:7
The first blew his trumpet; and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, falling upon the earth; and a third part of the earth was burnt up, and a third part of the trees and all the green grass.