Revelation 9:5

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

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  • Rev 9:10 : 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and the we stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
  • Rev 9:3 : 3 And the came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
  • Rev 11:7 : 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 And the was given unto him a mouth speaking gat things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
  • Rev 13:7 : 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindds, and tongues, and nations.
  • Job 2:6 : 6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
  • Dan 5:18-22 : 18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: 19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
  • Dan 7:6 : 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

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    9 And they had bastplates, as it we bastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

    10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and the we stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

    11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebw tongue is Abaddon, but in the Gek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

    12 One woe is past; and, behold, the come two woes mo heafter.

  • Rev 9:3-4
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    3 And the came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

    4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any gen thing, neither any te; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foheads.

  • Rev 9:6-7
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    6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desi to die, and death shall flee from them.

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    18 By these the was the third part of men killed, by the fi, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

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

    20 And the st of the men which we not killed by these plagues yet pented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

    21 Neither pented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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    15 And the four angels we loosed, which we ppad for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

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    8 And the fourth angel poud out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fi.

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    10 And the fifth angel poud out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

    11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sos, and pented not of their deeds.

  • Rev 11:5-7
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    5 And if any man will hurt them, fi proceedeth out of their mouth, and devouth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

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  • Rev 11:9-11
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    9 And they of the people and kindds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies the days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

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    11 And after the days and an half the Spirit of life from God ented into them, and they stood upon their feet; and gat fear fell upon them which saw them.

  • Rev 14:9-11
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    9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and ceive his mark in his fohead, or in his hand,

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  • Rev 16:2
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    2 And the first went, and poud out his vial upon the earth; and the fell a noisome and grievous so upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

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    8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

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    11 And white robes we given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should st yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their bthn, that should be killed as they we, should be fulfilled.

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    4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that we beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had ceived his mark upon their foheads, or in their hands; and they lived and igned with Christ a thousand years.

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    9 And the third part of the catus which we in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships we destroyed.