Revelation 9:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

Revelation 9:10 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:5
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Revelation 9:3
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Revelation 9:19
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

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Animals Cornet Grasshopper Horn Insects Locust Music Scorpion

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-12)

Upon the sounding of this trumpet, the things to be observed are, 1. A star falling from heaven to the earth. Some think this star represents some eminent bishop in the Christian church, some angel of the church; for, in the same way of speaking by which pastors are called stars, the church is called heaven; but who this is expositors do not agree. Some understand it of Boniface the third bishop o…

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

(vv. 10)

10. tails like unto scorpions--like unto the tails of scorpions. and there were stings--There is no oldest manuscript for this reading. A, B, Aleph, Syriac, and Coptic read, “and (they have) stings: and in their tails (is) their power (literally, ‘authority’: authorized power) to hurt.”