Verse 5

The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person.

Referenced Verses

  • Rev 9:10 : 10 They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.
  • Rev 9:3 : 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
  • Rev 11:7 : 7 When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.
  • Rev 13:7 : 7 The beast was permitted to go to war against the saints and conquer them. He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation,
  • Job 2:6 : 6 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”
  • Dan 5:18-22 : 18 As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty. 19 Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished. 20 And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him. 21 He was driven from human society, his mind was changed to that of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes. 22 “But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, although you knew all this.
  • Dan 7:6 : 6 “After these things, as I was watching, another beast like a leopard appeared, with four bird-like wings on its back. This beast had four heads, and ruling authority was given to it.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus replied,“You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”