Revelation 17:2
1 Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
3 And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
- KJV
- With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
- WEB
- with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell on the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
- ASV
- with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.
- DARBY
- with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
- BLB
- with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those dwelling on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
- ÅB
- som kongene på jorden drev hor med, og de som bor på jorden, ble drukne av hennes horelevnets vin.
- OTB
- som jordens konger har drevet hor med, og jordens innbyggere ble drukne av hennes horelivs vin.»
- B1930
- som kongene på jorden drev hor med, og de som bor på jorden, blev drukne av hennes horelevnets vin.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 14:8
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
Read in contextJeremiah 51:7
Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
Read in contextRevelation 18:3
All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
Read in contextRevelation 18:9
Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
Read in contextRevelation 18:23
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
Read in contextRevelation 17:17
For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
Read in contextRevelation 3:10
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Read in contextRevelation 17:13
These kings have one purpose: to yield their power and authority to the beast.
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