Revelation 9:10

And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and they had power to hurt men five months.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

In Context

9And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

11And they had over them a king, the angel of the abyss: his name, in Hebrew, is Abaddon, and, in Greek, he has the name Apollyon.

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Cross References

Luke 11:12Or if he ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

Revelation 9:5And they were permitted, not to kill them, but to torment them five months; and the torment inflicted by them was like the torment inflicted by a scorpion, when he stings a man.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:2-13

The Seven Trumpets. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they… Read the whole commentary →

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