Revelation 9:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. ”

Revelation 9:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For their power is in their mouth - That is, as described in the fire, smoke, and brimstone that proceeded out of their mouths. What struck the seer as remarkable on looking on the symbol was, th...
Revelation 9:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: (14) for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. (14) That is, they are harmful on all sides: on what...
Revelation 9:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Sixth Trumpet or the Second Woe. The loosing of the four angels of death, and the slaughter of a third part of the human race. Revelation 9:13 . the horns: the corners. the golden altar:...
Revelation 9:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

their power. The texts read "the power of the horses". serpents. Greek. ophis, as in Revelation 12:9 ; Revelation 12:14 ; Revelation 12:15 ; Revelation 20:2 . See Jeremiah 8:17 .
Revelation 9:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. Their power is in their mouth - From these the destructive...
Revelation 9:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The number of the army, &c.— A description is here given of the forces, and of the means and instruments bywhich the Othmans should effect the ruin of the Eastern empire. Their army is describe...
Revelation 9:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. Their. B C 'Aleph (') read, 'the power of the horses...
Revelation 9:19 - 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 9:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Impenitent in Spite of All Revelation 9:12-21 The river Euphrates possibly stands for nations and hordes of men emanating from that region; and these verses are held by a large number of exp...
Revelation 9:19 - 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 9:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(13) And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, (14) Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which ar...
Revelation 9:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For their power is in their mouth ,.... In what proceeded out of their mouth, or seethed to do so; in their guns, and what came out of them: and in their tails ; which may design their foot soldie...
Revelation 9:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. Ver. 19. In their mouth, and in their tails ] Like the...
Revelation 9:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The number of the army of horsemen were two hundred thousand A description is here given of the forces, and of the means and instruments by which the Othmans should effect the ruin of the eastern e...
Revelation 9:19 - 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 9:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Seventh Trumpet. A. D. 95. 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the...
Revelation 9:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By their tails some understand their infantry or foot soldiery; others, their serpentine craft and subtlety: as the locusts, Revelation 9:10 , are compared to scorpions, whose sting was in their...
Revelation 9:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the numbers of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million, I heard the number of them. And this is how I saw the horse in the vision, and those who sat on them, they have breastplates as...
Revelation 9:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 9:13 . Sixth angel sounded .—This woe is an invasion of foreign nations coming out of the East, and causing everywhere ruin and disaster. Revelation 9:...
Revelation 9:19 - 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 9:19 - 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 9:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The further description of the seer confirms this interpretation:
Revelation 9:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 4:14 ; Isaiah 9:15 ; Revelation 9:10

Revelation 9:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Revelation 9:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Revelation 9:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Revelation 9:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Revelation 9:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Revelation 9:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Revelation 9:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Revelation 9:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Revelation 9:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Revelation 9:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge