Revelation 9:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. ”

Revelation 9:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they had tails like unto scorpions - The fancy of an Arab now often discerns a resemblance between the tail of the locust and the scorpion. See the remark of Niebuhr, quoted in the notes on...
Revelation 9:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth Trumpet or the First Woe. The seer sees a star fallen on the earth. The star seems to represent a person, possibly Satan ( cf. Luke 10:18 ). abyss: the word properly means bottomless,...
Revelation 9:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Revelation 9:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. They had tails like unto scorpions - This may refer to the consequences of...
Revelation 9:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And their power was to hurt men five months,— See on Revelation 9:5 . where it is said, as well as here, that they were to hurt and torment five months, in conformity, no doubt, to the type; for...
Revelation 9:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. Tails like unto scorpions - the tails of scorpions. And there were...
Revelation 9:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets These herald woes upon the ungodly and idolatrous, inflicted both by demonic and by human agency. 1-12. The fifth trumpet initiates the first of the three woes. A s...
Revelation 9:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(10) And they had tails... — Better, And they have tails like to scorpions, and stings, and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months. In this verse the secret of their power is mentio...
Revelation 9:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Out of the Smoke of the Pit” Revelation 9:1-11 This chapter reminds us of the prophet Joel who, under the imagery of a swarm of locusts, depicted the coming invasion of hostile nations. Whethe...
Revelation 9:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the procedure of judgment takes a new form, passing from the material to the spiritual. The loosing of Satan is suggestive of the manifestation of satanic agency...
Revelation 9:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. (2) And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke ou...
Revelation 9:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they had tails like unto scorpions ,.... Locusts are said to have the tail of a serpent, and of the vipers of the earth u; Revelation 9:3 , Revelation 9:5 . And there were stings in their ta...
Revelation 9:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. Ver. 10. And they had tails ] This may be well meant of their surrogat...
Revelation 9:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They had tails like unto scorpions They are thrice compared to scorpions, namely, Revelation 9:3 ; Revelation 9:5 , as well as in this verse. But whether these tails and stings , as of scorpio...
Revelation 9:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth Trumpet: A Demon Infestation (vv. 1-12) The sounding of the fifth trumpet discloses "a star fallen from heaven:" it is already fallen (v. 1). This is the same star that fell under...
Revelation 9:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Seven Trumpets. A. D. 95. 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven...
Revelation 9:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And they had tails like unto scorpions; a kind of venomous serpents that have their stings in their tails, with which they presently kill both men and beasts. And their power was to hurt men fiv...
Revelation 9:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the shapes of the locusts were like horses made ready for war, and on their heads were, as it were, crowns similar to gold, and their faces were like men's faces. They had hair like the hair of...
Revelation 9:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FIFTH AND SIXTH WOE-TRUMPETS CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 9:1 . Fall .—Better, “fallen”; that had fallen. A star would seem to represent a false teacher. Some think Mahomet is...
Revelation 9:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:1 . The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star, the vile impostor Mahomed, fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit: it should read, the ke...
Revelation 9:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; a star from heaven fallen unto the earth (Revised Version); not saw a star fal...
Revelation 9:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The plague of the locusts:
Revelation 9:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:3 ; Revelation 9:5
Revelation 9:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And they have tails like scorpions — That is, each tail is like a scorpion, not like the tail of a scorpion. To hurt the unsealed men five months — Five prophetic months; that is, seventy — nine co...

Revelation 9:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Revelation 9:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Revelation 9:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Revelation 9:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Revelation 9:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Revelation 9:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Revelation 9:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Revelation 9:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Revelation 9:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Revelation 9:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes