Revelation 9:10

And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

Bible in Basic English

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 iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.

11They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.

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Cross References

Luke 11:12Or for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Revelation 9:5And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.

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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