Devine Scripture

Revelation 4:3

Revelation chapter 4 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

Context

v.2Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;

v.3This passage

v.4And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 39:11

    and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

  • Ezekiel 28:13

    Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.

  • Revelation 21:11

    having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal:

  • Exodus 28:18

    and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

  • Ezekiel 1:28

    As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

  • Exodus 24:10

    and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.