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.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4These are the two olive-trees, and the two candlesticks, which stand before the Lord of the earth.
Cross References
Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And thrust my horn into the dust.
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence; They have cast dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Matthew 18:16but if he do not listen, take with thee one or two more; that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
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 →