Revelation 17:10
And they are seven kings; five of them are fallen, one is; the other is not yet come, and when he hath come, he must remain a short time.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
11And the beast that was, and is not, he is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Cross References
Isaiah 23:15And it shall come to pass in that day, That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, According to the days of one king; But at the end of seventy years It shall be with Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
Revelation 13:12And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his presence; and causeth 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 →