Revelation 17:10

and there are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, and another is not yet come; and when he may come it behooves him to remain a little while.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

In Context

9Here is a mind having wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman sits upon them,

11The beast which was, and is not, and the same is the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going into perdition.

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Cross References

Revelation 13:12And he exercises all the authority of the first beast before him. And he makes the earth and those dwelling in it, that they shall worship the first beast, whose wound of his death 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 →

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