Revelation 17:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 17

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

¹⁵And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Revelation 17:15 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Revelation 17:14 Revelation 17:16 →

Original word meaning

— of 17

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Jeremiah 51:55
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Isaiah 8:7-8
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: …
Jeremiah 51:13
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
Psalms 65:7
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

Topics

Creation Water

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-18)

Here we have some account of the downfall of Babylon, to be more fully described in the following chapter. I. Here is a war begun between the beast and his followers, and the Lamb and his followers. The beast and his army, to an eye of sense, appear much stronger than the Lamb and his army: one would think an army with a lamb at the head of them could not stand before the great red dragon. But, II…

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

(vv. 15)

15. (Re 17:1; Is 8:7.) An impious parody of Jehovah who “sitteth upon the flood” [Alford]. Also, contrast the “many waters” Re 19:6, “Alleluia.” peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues--The “peoples,” &c., here mark the universality of the spiritual fornication of the Church. The “tongues” remind us of the original Babel, the confusion of tongues, the beginning of Babylon, and the first…