Revelation 7:4 BSB — MannaFest

Revelation 7:4

And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:

BSB

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ASV

And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

KJV

And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I heard the number of them which were sealed - In the number of 144,000 are included all the Jews converted to Christianity; 12,000 out of each of the twelve tribes: but this must be only a certain for an uncertain number; for it is not to be supposed that just 12,000 were converted out of each of the twelve tribes.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Of the children of Israel - To these will afterwards be joined a multitude out of all nations. But it may be observed, this is not the number of all the Israelites who are saved from Abraham or Moses to the end of all things; but only of those who were secured from the plagues which were then ready to fall on the earth.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

A thousand implies the world perfectly pervaded by the divine; for it is ten, the world number, raised to the power of three, the number of God. of all the tribes--literally, "out of every tribe"; not 144,000 of each tribe, but the aggregate of the twelve thousand from every tribe. children--Greek, "sons of Israel." Re 3:12;

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
ἤκουσα	ēkousa	I heard	G191 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἀριθμὸν	arithmon	number	G706 →
τῶν	tōn	of those	G3588 →
ἐσφραγισμένων·	esphragismenōn	sealed;	G4972 →
ἑκατὸν	hekaton	one hundred	G1540 →
τεσσεράκοντα	tesserakonta	forty	G5062 →
τέσσαρες	tessares	four	G5064 →
χιλιάδες	chiliades	thousand	G5505 →
ἐσφραγισμένοι	esphragismenoi	sealed	G4972 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
πάσης	pasēs	every	G3956 →
φυλῆς	phulēs	tribe	G5443 →
υἱῶν	huiōn	of [the] sons	G5207 →
Ἰσραήλ·	Israēl	of Israel:	G2474 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 14:1
Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
leads to
- Joel 2:32
  And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by…
- Revelation 3:12
  The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the…
- Revelation 7:3–17
  “Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have sealed the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
- Luke 12:8
  I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
- Hebrews 12:22–24
  Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
Through
Revelation 14:3
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the…
leads to
- Revelation 5:9
  And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and…
Through
Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve…
leads to
- Luke 22:28–30
  You are the ones who have stood by Me in My trials.
Through
Luke 22:30
so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
leads to
- Matthew 19:28
  Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Revelation

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Revelation