Revelation 9:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.

Cross References

Job 39:25

When the trumpet sounds, it says ‘Aha!’ From a distance it smells the battle, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Job 40:18

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

Isaiah 9:5

For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the clatter of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, parents do not turn back for children, so feeble are their hands,

Revelation 9:17

And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur; the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.