Revelation 12:1
And a great sign was seen in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars upon her head.
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2And having in her womb, she cried out, suffering birth pains, and suffering to give birth.
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
Song of Solomon 6:10Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, sublime as an army with banners?
Isaiah 54:5For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth.
Isaiah 60:19The sun shall no more be thy light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to thee, but LORD will be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Isaiah 62:3Thou shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Zechariah 9:16And LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people, [as] for the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 12:1
It is generally agreed by the most learned expositors that the narrative we have in this and the two following chapters, from the sounding of the seventh trumpet to the opening of the vials, is not a prediction of things to come, but rather a recapitulation and representation of things past, which, as God would have the apostle to foresee while future, he would have him to review now that they were past, that he might have a more perfect idea of them in his mind, and might observe the agreement between the… Read the whole commentary →