Revelation 11:3
And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4These men are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, having stood before the Lord of the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Deuteronomy 17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death. He shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.
1 Chronicles 21:16And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the agent of LORD standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust upon their heads. They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Matthew 18:16But if he should not hear, take with thee one or two besides, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 11:2-3
The Measuring of the Temple. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. This prophetical passage about measuring the temple is a plain reference to what we find in Ezekiel's vision, Ezek. xl. 3 , &c. But how to… Read the whole commentary →