Revelation 9:10

And they had tails similar to scorpions. And there were stingers in their tails, and these had the power to harm men for five months.

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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 breastplates. And the noise of their wings was like the noise of many running horses, rushing to battle.

11And they had over them a king, the Angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Doom; in Greek, Destroyer; in Latin, Exterminator.

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Cross References

Luke 11:12Or if he will ask for an egg, he would offer to him a scorpion?

Revelation 9:5And it was given to them that they would not kill them, but that they would torture them for five months. And their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when he strikes 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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