Revelation 9:5

And it was given to them, that they should not kill them, but that they shall be tormented five months. And their torment is as the torment of a scorpion, when it has smitten a man.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

In Context

4And it was said to them, that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads.

6And in those days men will seek death, and shall not find it; and they will desire to die, and death flees from them.

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Cross References

John 19:11Jesus answered: Thou wouldst have no power against me, except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin.

Revelation 9:10And they have tails like to scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men, five months.

Revelation 13:5And there was given to him a mouth speaking great and blasphemous things; and power was given him to work forty-two months.

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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