Revelation 11:3
And I will give [power] to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4These are the two olive trees and the two lamps which stand before the Lord of the earth;
Cross References
Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Deuteronomy 17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death: he shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.
1 Chronicles 21:16And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah stand between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground.
Matthew 18:16But if he do not hear [thee], take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 11:2-3
The Measuring of the Temple. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. This prophetical passage about measuring the temple is a plain reference to what we find in Ezekiel's vision, Ezek. xl. 3 , &c. But how to… Read the whole commentary →