Revelation 9:19

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they harm.

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In The King James Version

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

In Context

18By these three plagues, one third of mankind was killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

20The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can’t see, hear, or walk.

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:15The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

Revelation 9:10They have tails like those of scorpions, with stingers. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:14-21

The Seventh Trumpet. ( a. d. 95.) 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of… Read the whole commentary →

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