In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.

In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).

In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)

In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])

In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)

1949. ‘Is erit onager homo’: quod significet verum rationale quod describitur, constat ex significatione ‘onagri’ quod sit verum rationale: in Verbo pluries memorantur equi, equites, muli, asini, et nemini adhuc notum est quod significent intellectualia, rationalia et scientifica, qui quod illa significent, ex Divina Domini Misericordia, suis locis, multis confirmabitur; ejusdem generis est onager, est enim mulus deserti seu asinus silvestris, et significat rationale hominis, non rationale in suo complexu sed modo verum rationale: rationale consistit a bono et vero, hoc est, ex illis quae sunt charitatis et ex illis quae sunt fidei; rationale verum est id quod per ‘onagrum’ significatur; hoc nunc est quod per ‘Ismaelem’ repraesentatur et ¹ describitur in hoc versu.

[2] Nemo credere potest quod verum rationale separatum a bono rationali, tale sit, nec scivissem quod tale, nisi per vivam experientiam instructus; sive dicas verum rationale, sive hominem cujus rationale tale est, idem est: homo cujus rationale tale est ut solum in vero sit, etiamsi in vero fidei, non simul in bono charitatis, est prorsus talis; est vir morosus, nihil patiens, contra omnes, unumquemvis videns sicut in falso, ilico increpans, castigans, puniens, non miseretur, non se applicat et studet flectere animos, nam ex vero spectat omne, et nihil ex bono; verbo est durus homo: unice quod emollit duritiem ejus, est bonum quod est charitatis nam anima veri est bonum, quod cum accedit et insinuat se vero, fit aliud ut vix cognoscatur. Per ‘Isacum’ repraesentatur Rationalis Homo Domini, qui ex bono, non ex vero separato a bono. Inde est quod Ismael expulsus, et dein habitavit in deserto, et mater ei uxorem accepit e terra Aegypti, Gen. 21:9-21, quae omnia sunt repraesentativa ² tali rationali praediti.

[3] Onagrorum mentio fit in propheticis Verbi, ut apud Esaiam,

Palatium erit desertum, multitudo urbis derelicta, clivus et specula erit pro speluncis, usque in saeculum gaudium onagrorum, pascuum gregum, 32:14;

ubi de vastatione intellectualium quae cum vastata quoad vera, vocantur ‘gaudium onagrorum’, et quoad bona ‘pascuum gregum’, ita ut non rationale:

apud Jeremiam,

Onagri steterunt super collibus, sorbuerunt ventum sicut ceti, consumpti sunt oculi eorum, quia non herba, 14:6;

ubi de siccitate seu non bono et vero: de onagris praedicatur quod ‘sorbeant ventum’ cum inania captantur loco realium quae sunt vera; ‘consumpti oculi’ pro quod verum quid sit, non capiatur:

[4] apud Hoscheam,

Quia illi ascenderunt Assyriam, onager solitarius sibi, Ephraim mercede meretricia expetiverunt amores, 8:9;

ibi de Israele seu Ecclesia spirituali: ‘Ephraim’ pro intellectuali ejus; ‘ascendere Assyriam’ pro ratiocinari de vero num veram; ‘onager solitarius’ pro rationali sic destituto veris:

apud eundem,

Quia ille inter fratres sicut onager erit, veniet orientalis ventus Jehovae a deserto ascendens, et exarescet scaturigo ejus, et exsiccabitur fons ejus; ille depraedabitur thesaurum omnium vasorum desiderii, 13:15;

ubi de ‘Ephraim’ per quem intellectuale Ecclesiae spiritualis significatur, cujus rationale sicut ‘onager’, de cujus dissipatione agitur:

apud Davidem,

Jehovah Deus emittet fontes in fluvios, inter montes ibunt, potum praebent omni ferae agrorum, frangunt onagri sitim suam, Psalmi 104:10, 11;

‘fontes’ pro cognitionibus; ‘ferae agrorum ³ ’ pro bonis; ‘onagri’ pro veris rationis.

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440. And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but who in Greek has the name Apollyon. (9:11) This symbolically means that those caught up in falsities springing from lusts, who by a total falsification of the Word destroyed the church, are in a satanic hell.

The angel of the bottomless pit as king does not signify that some angel is king there, but that falsity reigns in it. For a king in its genuine sense symbolizes someone who possesses truths owing to an affection for goodness, and abstractly truth itself (no. 20); and in an opposite sense, therefore, a king symbolizes someone who is caught up in falsities owing to a lust for evil, and abstractly falsity itself. The bottomless pit symbolizes the satanic hell where such people reside (nos. 387, 421). A name symbolizes the character of someone's or something's state (nos. 81, 122, 165).

Abaddon in Hebrew is someone who destroys, or a destroyer, and likewise Apollyon in Greek, and this is falsity of the most fundamental sort, which by a total falsification of the Word has destroyed the church.

Abaddon in the Hebrew text means destruction in the following places:

Your truth in destruction? (Psalms 88:11)

Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering. (Job 26:6)

For it will be a fire that consumes to destruction... (Job 31:12)

Destruction and death say... (Job 28:22)

Elsewhere hell and the devil are called destruction or a destroyer (Isaiah 54:16, Ezekiel 5:16; 9:1, Exodus 12:13), but by using another term.