Revelation 17:10
And they are seven kings; the five are fallen, and the one is; the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little time.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
9Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Cross References
Revelation 13:12And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 17:8-14
The Fall of Babylon. ( a. d. 95.) 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9… Read the whole commentary →