Revelation 6:8

New American Bible - revised edition

I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death, her steps reach Sheol;

Isaiah 25:8

He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces; The reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 14:12

If they fast, I will not listen to their supplication. If they sacrifice burnt offerings or grain offerings, I will take no pleasure in them. Rather, I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.

Jeremiah 16:16

Look!—oracle of the Lord—I will send many fishermen to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and rocky crevice.

Jeremiah 16:4

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 24:10

I will send upon them sword, famine, and pestilence, until they have disappeared from the land which I gave them and their ancestors.

Jeremiah 29:17

thus says the Lord of hosts: I am sending against them sword, famine, and pestilence. I will make them like rotten figs, so spoiled that they cannot be eaten.

Jeremiah 43:11

He shall come and strike the land of Egypt: with death, those marked for death; with exile, those marked for exile; with the sword, those marked for the sword.

Ezekiel 29:5

I will hurl you into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your Nile. You will fall into an open field, you will not be picked up or gathered together. To the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky I give you as food.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people shall die of disease or starve to death within you; another third shall fall by the sword all around you; a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue them with the sword.

Hosea 13:14

Shall I deliver them from the power of Sheol? shall I redeem them from death? Where are your plagues, O death! where is your sting, Sheol! Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Habakkuk 2:5

Indeed wealth is treacherous; a proud man does not succeed. He who opens wide his throat like Sheol, and is insatiable as death, Who gathers to himself all the nations, and collects for himself all the peoples—

Zechariah 6:3

the third chariot white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses—all of them strong horses.

Matthew 11:23

And as for you, Capernaum: ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’ For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Matthew 24:7

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place.

1 Corinthians 15:55

Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

Revelation 1:18

the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.

Revelation 12:4

Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth.

Revelation 9:15

So the four angels were released, who were prepared for this hour, day, month, and year to kill a third of the human race.

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out of their mouths a third of the human race was killed.