Revelation 9:10

They had tails with stingers like scorpions; in their tails they had power to harm people for five months.

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In The King James Version

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

In Context

9They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound made by many chariots and horses running into battle.

11They had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew was Abaddon, and in Greek he had the name Apollyon.

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Cross References

Luke 11:12Or if he asks for an egg, will you give a scorpion to him?

Revelation 9:5They were not given permission to kill those people, but only to torture them for five months. Their agony would be like the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a person.

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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