Revelation 12:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Revelation 12:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation 2:26-27
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: …
Psalms 2:9-10
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. …
Revelation 12:2
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-11)

Here we see that early prophecy eminently fulfilled in which God said he would put enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, Gen. 3:15. You will observe, I. The attempts of Satan and his agents to prevent the increase of the church, by devouring her offspring as soon as it was born; of this we have a very lively description in the most proper images. 1. We see how the churc…

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

(vv. 5)

5. man-child--Greek, “a son, a male.” On the deep significance of this term, see on Re 12:1, 2. rule--Greek, “poimainein,” “tend as a shepherd”; (see on Re 2:27). rod of iron--A rod is for long-continued obstinacy until they submit themselves to obedience [Bengel]: Re 2:27; Psa 2:9, which passages prove the Lord Jesus to be meant. Any interpretation which ignores this must be wrong. The male son’s…