Revelation 6:5

The English Standar Version

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Ezekiel 4:10

And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels[3] a day; from day to day[4] you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4:16

Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply[7] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your supply[2] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Zechariah 6:2

The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

Zechariah 6:6

The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country."

Matthew 24:7

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Revelation 5:5

And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals."

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,

Revelation 6:1

Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, "Come!"