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Rev. 16:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the suni; and power was given unto him to scorch men withk fire.

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Rev. 8:12• ¹²And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and that the day should not appear for the third part of it, and the night the same. (Rev. 8:12)

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Rev. 9:17• ¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat upon them, having breastplates of fire and jacinth and brimstone; and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions, and out of their mouths goes out fire and smoke and brimstone. (Rev. 9:17)

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Rev. 6:12• ¹²And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood, (Rev. 6:12)

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Rev. 8:12• ¹²And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and that the day should not appear for the third part of it, and the night the same. (Rev. 8:12)

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Rev. 9:2• ²And it opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. (Rev. 9:2)

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Isa. 24:23• ²³And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients in glory. (Isa. 24:23)

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Luke 21:25• ²⁵And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and rolling waves, (Luke 21:25)

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Acts 2:20• ²⁰the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of the Lord come. (Acts 2:20)

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Rev. 7:16• ¹⁶They shall not hunger any more, neither shall they thirst any more, nor shall the sun at all fall on them, nor any burning heat; (Rev. 7:16)

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Rev. 9:17‑18• ¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat upon them, having breastplates of fire and jacinth and brimstone; and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions, and out of their mouths goes out fire and smoke and brimstone.
¹⁸By these three plagues were the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which goes out of their mouths. (Rev. 9:17‑18)

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Rev. 14:18• ¹⁸And another angel came out of the altar, having power over fire, and called with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripened. (Rev. 14:18)

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Jonah 4:8• ⁸And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. (Jonah 4:8)

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Matt. 13:6• ⁶but when the sun rose they were burned up, and because of not having any root were dried up; (Matt. 13:6)

• The fourth is on the public supreme authority [sun]. (“Lectures on Revelation 16” by W. Kelly)

• It is a judgment on the sun, the figure of supreme government; so that what ought to have been the means of light and comfort — that greater light which rules the day — now becomes the means of scorching men with fire. (“Lectures on Revelation 16” by W. Kelly)

• But the fourth Trumpet, both in severity and range, must pale before the greater horrors of the fourth Vial. There darkness, here intolerable agony; there an area of circumscribed judgment, here the judgment extends to the utmost bounds of Christendom; there the circumstances of men are in question, here men themselves in their own persons are the agonized sufferers. (“Revelation 16: The Seven Vials (Continued)” by W. Scott)

• The sun as a figure denotes supreme government (see on Rev. 6:12; 8:12; 9:2; 12:1). We understand, therefore, that the great governing authority on earth becomes the cause of intense and frightful anguish to men. (“Revelation 16: The Seven Vials (Continued)” by W. Scott)

• They “blasphemed the Name of God.” What an answer on man’s part to the expressed wrath of the Almighty! How incorrigibly bad and thoroughly corrupt is the will of man! (“Revelation 16: The Seven Vials (Continued)” by W. Scott)

• Blood as of a Dead Man: Final open apostasy and alienation from God. (“Revelation 16 Symbols” by A.H. Burton)

• To Scorch with Fire: Intolerable tyranny and persecution. (“Revelation 16 Symbols” by A.H. Burton)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun; and it was given to it to burn men with fire.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the fourtha poured out his bowl uponb the sun; and it was given himc to scorch men with fire.

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See note to verse 3.

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See note to verse 1.

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The word "it" is probably right, rather than "him," as in the KJV, which is put in the margin of the RV.