Revelation 21:26 BSB

Revelation 21:26

And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it:

KJV

And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

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Commentary

1 voice

Oecumenius

Commentary on Revelation (550)

Glory and honor of the nations, that which is brought into the holy city, in an indirectness he said those who among the Gentiles have become esteemed and have behaved worthy of life; for these shall be carried into the heavenly Jerusalem and shall dwell …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The glory and honor of the nations into it - Still alluding to the declarations of the prophets, (see the passages in the margin, Rev 21:24, etc.), that the Gentiles would be led to contribute to the riches and glory of the temple by their gifts, etc.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

All that was truly glorious and excellent in the earth and its converted nations shall be gathered into it; and while all shall form one Bride, there shall be various orders among the redeemed, analogous to the divisions of nations on earth constituting the one great human family, and to the various orders of angels.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
οἴσουσιν	oisousin	they will bring	G5342 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
δόξαν	doxan	glory	G1391 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
τιμὴν	timēn	honor	G5092 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
ἐθνῶν	ethnōn	nations	G1484 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
αὐτήν.	autēn	it.	G846 →

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 walk5

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 21:24
By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.
leads to
- Zechariah 8:22–23
  And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”
- Revelation 22:2
  down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month.…
- Romans 15:10–12
  Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”
- Isaiah 66:18
  “And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
- Zechariah 2:11
  “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me…

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