Revelation 17:10

And there are seven kings: five are fallen, one is, and another is not yet come; and when he cometh, he is to continue but a little while.

1770 John Worsley 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

9To this the mind that hath wisdom will attend: for the seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman sitteth.

11And the beast that was, and is not, he is the eighth, and is as one of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

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Cross References

Revelation 13:12And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his presence; and makes the earth, and those that dwell in it, to worship the first beast, 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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