Revelation 12:1
And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered.
Cross References
Psalms 84:11For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
Song of Solomon 6:10I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Isaiah 54:5For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 60:19Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.
Isaiah 62:3And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Zechariah 9:16And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the dock of his people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 12:1
It is generally agreed by the most learned expositors that the narrative we have in this and the two following chapters, from the sounding of the seventh trumpet to the opening of the vials, is not a prediction of things to come, but rather a recapitulation and representation of things past, which, as God would have the apostle to foresee while future, he would have him to review now that they were past, that he might have a more perfect idea of them in his mind, and might observe the agreement between the… Read the whole commentary →