Revelation 1:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 4:2
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
Exodus 25:37
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Revelation 1:13
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Ezekiel 43:5-6
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-20)

We have now come to that glorious vision which the apostle had of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he came to deliver this revelation to him, where observe, I. The account given of the person who was favoured with this vision. He describes himself, 1. By his present state and condition. He was the brother and companion of these churches in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Christ. He was,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. see the voice--that is, ascertain whence the voice came; to see who was it from whom the voice proceeded. that--Greek, “of what kind it was which.” The voice is that of God the Father, as at Christ’s baptism and transfiguration, so here in presenting Christ as our High Priest. spake--The oldest manuscripts, versions, and Fathers read, “was speaking.” being--“having turned.” seven ... candlesti…