Verse 5

They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

Referenced Verses

  • Rev 9:10 : 10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
  • Rev 9:3 : 3 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
  • Rev 11:7 : 7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
  • Rev 13:7 : 7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
  • Job 2:6 : 6 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
  • Dan 5:18-22 : 18 You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty: 19 and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, 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 animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will. 22 You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
  • Dan 7:6 : 6 After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."