Revelation 19:18 BSB

Revelation 19:18

so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

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ASV

that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.

KJV

That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The "kings" are "the ten" who "give their power unto the beast." free and bond--specified in Re 13:16, as "receiving the mark of the beast." The repetition of flesh (in the Greek it is plural: masses of flesh) five times in this verse, marks the gross carnality of the followers of the beast.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἵνα	ina	so that	G2443 →
φάγητε	phagēte	you may eat	G5315 →
σάρκας	sarkas	[the] flesh	G4561 →
βασιλέων	basileōn	of kings	G935 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
σάρκας	sarkas	[the] flesh	G4561 →
χιλιάρχων	chiliarchōn	of commanders	G5506 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
σάρκας	sarkas	[the] flesh	G4561 →
ἰσχυρῶν	ischurōn	of mighty [men]	G2478 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
σάρκας	sarkas	[the] flesh	G4561 →
ἵππων	ippōn	of horses	G2462 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τῶν	tōn	of those	G3588 →
καθημένων	kathēmenōn	sitting	G2521 →
ἐπ᾽	ep᾽	on	G1909 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	them	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
σάρκας	sarkas	[the] flesh	G4561 →
πάντων,	pantōn	of all,	G3956 →
ἐλευθέρων	eleutherōn	free	G1658 →
τε	te	both	G5037 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δούλων	doulōn	slaves	G1401 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μικρῶν	mikrōn	small	G3398 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μεγάλων.¶	megalōn	great.	G3173 →

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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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
Jeremiah 34:20
I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
leads to
- Jeremiah 7:33
  The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 16:4
  “They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
1 Samuel 17:46
This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air…
leads to
- Isaiah 52:10
  The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- Joshua 4:24
  He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”
- 2 Kings 19:19
  And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
- 1 Kings 8:43
  then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear…
- Deuteronomy 28:26
  Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
Through
Revelation 6:15
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
leads to
- Isaiah 2:19
  Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.