Revelation 9:19

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.

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In The King James Version

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

In Context

18By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.

20And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:15The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

Revelation 9:10And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:14-21

The Seventh Trumpet. ( a. d. 95.) 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of… Read the whole commentary →

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