Revelation 17:10

And there are seven kings: of whom five have fallen, one exists, and the other hath not yet come; and when he cometh he must continue for a short time.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 intelligence, for him who hath wisdom. Those seven heads are the seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

11And the beast of prey, which was and is not, is the eighth, and is from the seven, and is for perdition.

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Cross References

Revelation 13:12And before him he exercised all the authority of the first beast of prey, 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 →

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