24And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
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And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-24)Here we have, I. A doleful lamentation made by Babylon’s friends for her fall; and here observe, 1. Who are the mourners, namely, those who had been bewitched by her fornication, those who had been sharers in her sensual pleasures, and those who had been gainers by her wealth and trade—the kings and the merchants of the earth: the kings of the earth , whom she had flattered into idolatry by allowi…
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