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10 The locusts had tails with stingers like scorpions. The power they had to hurt people for five months was in their tails. 11 The locusts had a king who was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon. In the Greek language his name is Apollyon.[a]

12 The first great trouble is past. There are still two other great troubles that will come.

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  1. 9:11 Abaddon . . . Apollyon Both names mean “Destroyer.”

10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.(A) 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss,(B) whose name in Hebrew(C) is Abaddon(D) and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.(E)

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