Revelation 9:5

They 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.

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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

4They were told not to damage the grass on the earth or any green plant or tree, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

6In those days people will seek death, but will not find it. They will greatly desire to die, but death will flee from them.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 10:11So now, although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.'”

Daniel 5:18As for you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

John 19:11Jesus answered him, “You do not have any power over me except for what has been given to you from above. Therefore, he who gave me over to you has a greater sin.”

Revelation 9:10They had tails with stingers like scorpions; in their tails they had power to harm people for five months.

Revelation 13:5The beast was given a mouth that could speak proud words and blasphemies. It was permitted to exercise authority for 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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