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Revelation 16:6

Because they poured out the blood of the sanctified and prophets, and thou have given them blood to drink--they are deserving.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

In Context

5And I heard the agent of the waters saying, Thou are righteous who is and was--the Divine--because thou judged these things.

7And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty, TRUE and righteous are thy judgments.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.

Isaiah 49:26And I will feed those who oppress thee with their own flesh. And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine. And all flesh shall know that I, LORD, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Jeremiah 2:30In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 26:16Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets. This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of LORD our God.

Ezekiel 32:6I will also water the land, in which thou swim, with thy blood, even to the mountains. And the watercourses shall be full of thee.

Matthew 21:35And the farmers having taken his bondmen, they beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 16:2-8

The Seven Vials. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. 3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 4 And the… Read the whole commentary →

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