Revelation 6:8

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So, I looked and before me [stood] a pale green horse, and the name of the man riding on it was “Death,” and the unseen place of departed spirits followed along behind him. And they were [both] given authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill people with swords, with famine, with terrible judgments and by wild animals of the earth.

Cross References

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am [now] alive forever and ever! And I possess the keys of death and of the unseen place of departed spirits.

Revelation 9:18

One third of mankind was killed by these three plagues --- the fire, the smoke and the sulfur, which proceeded out of the horses’ mouths.

Revelation 9:15

And the four angels, who had been ready for this hour and day and month and year, were [now] released to kill one third of mankind.

1 Corinthians 15:55

[Hos. 13:14 says], “Death, where is your victory [over people]? Death, where is your [harmful] sting?”

Matthew 11:23

And Capernaum, do you think you will be lifted up toward heaven [as a proud city]? [No indeed], you will [surely] go down to the place of the unseen [i.e., become obscure or obliterated as a city]. For if the powerful miracles had been performed in Sodom which were performed in your presence, it would have remained [even] until today.

Revelation 12:4

And his tail swept away one third of the stars of the sky and threw them to earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he could eat her child as soon as it was born.

Matthew 24:7

For nations will wage war against one another, and kingdoms will attack one another. And famines and earthquakes will occur at various places [in the world].