Revelation 11:3
And I will give unto my two witnesses, that they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred and sixty days, arrayed in sackcloth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4These, are the two olive-trees, and the two lamps, which, before the Lord of the earth, do stand.
Cross References
Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins,—and mourned over his son many days.
Deuteronomy 17:6At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death,—he shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.
1 Chronicles 21:16And, when David lifted up his eyes, and saw the messenger of Yahweh, standing, between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn, in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, then fell David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, upon their faces.
Job 16:15Sackcloth, sewed I on my skin, and rolled—in the dust—my horn:
Lamentations 2:10Seated on the ground, in silence, are the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have lifted up dust on their head, have girded themselves with sackcloth,—Bowed down to the ground is the head, of the virgins of Jerusalem.
Matthew 18:16But, if he do not hearken, take with thee, yet one or two, that, at the mouth of two witnesses or three, every declaration, maybe established;
Matthew Henry on Revelation 11:2-3
The Measuring of the Temple. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. This prophetical passage about measuring the temple is a plain reference to what we find in Ezekiel's vision, Ezek. xl. 3 , &c. But how to… Read the whole commentary →