Revelation 17:12 BSB

Revelation 17:12

The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.

KJV

And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

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Commentary

4 voices

Victorinus of Pettau

Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John (304)

"And the beast which thou sawest is of the seven." Since before those kings Nero reigned. "And he is the eighth." He says only when this beast shall come, reckon it the eighth place, since in that is the completion. He added:- "And shall go into perdition." For that ten kings received royal power when he shall move from the east, he says. He shall be sent from the city of Rome with his armies. And Daniel sets forth the ten horns and the ten diadems.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book V (202)

In a still clearer light has John, in the Apocalypse, indicated to the Lord's disciples what shall happen in the last times, and concerning the ten kings who shall then arise, among whom the empire which now rules [the earth] shall be partitioned. He teaches us what the ten horns shall be which were seen by Daniel, telling us that thus it had been said to him: "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet, but shall receive power as if kings one hour with the beast.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

They are ten secular potentates, contemporary with, not succeeding, each other, who receive authority as kings with the beast, probably in some convention, which, after a very short space, they will deliver up to the beast. Because of their short continuance, only authority as kings, not a kingdom, is ascribed to them.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Compare Da 2:34, 44, "the stone smote the image upon his feet," that is, upon the ten toes, which are, in Da 2:41-44, interpreted to be "kings." The ten kingdoms are not, therefore, ten which arose in the overthrow of Rome (heathen), but are to rise out of the last state of the fourth kingdom under the eighth head.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
δέκα	deka	ten	G1176 →
κέρατα	kerata	horns	G2768 →
ἃ	ha	which	G3739 →
εἶδες,	eides	you saw,	G1492 →
δέκα	deka	ten	G1176 →
βασιλεῖς	basileis	kings	G935 →
εἰσιν,	eisin	are,	G1510 →
οἵτινες	oitines	who	G3748 →
βασιλείαν	basileian	a kingdom	G932 →
οὔπω	oupō	not yet	G3768 →
ἔλαβον	elabon	have received	G2983 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ἐξουσίαν	exousian	authority	G1849 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
βασιλεῖς	basileis	kings	G935 →
μίαν	mian	one	G1520 →
ὥραν	hōran	hour	G5610 →
λαμβάνουσιν	lambanousin	receive	G2983 →
μετὰ	meta	along with	G3326 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
θηρίου.	thēriou	beast.	G2342 →

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

The walk

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 13:1
Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
leads to
- Revelation 12:3
  Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 17:3
  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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 11:7
  When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
- Daniel 7:23–25
  This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down,…
- Daniel 7:2–3
  Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
Through
Revelation 12:3
Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
leads to
- Daniel 7:20
  I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 7:24
  And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
Through
Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
leads to
- Revelation 18:8
  Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”