Revelation 21:12

Twelve angels — Still waiting upon the heirs of salvation.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And had a wall great and high - Ancient cities were always surrounded with walls for protection, and John represents this as enclosed in the usua...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(9) And had a wall great and high, [and] had (10) twelve gates, and at the gates (11) twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are [the names]...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

And. Omit. had . having. twelve gates. Compare Ezekiel 48:31-34 . Both John and Ezekiel wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, and thei...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

There came unto me one of the seven angels, &c.— A more particular description is now given of the new Jerusalem. One of the seven angels (an...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And had a wall great and high... — Or, better (for the construction is continued), Having a wall great and high, and having twelve gate-towers, an...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(12) And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelv...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And had a wall great and high ,.... Not the Spirit of God, who separates, sanctifies, and preserves the saints, as Cocceius thinks, for this account...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And there came unto me one of the seven angels Most probably the same who had ( Revelation 17:1 , &c.) showed John the mystic Babylon and her d...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The New Heaven and New Earth Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Now J...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Her light was like a most precious stone, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal, having a wall great and high, having twelve entrances, and at...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Scofield Reference Notes

angels ( See Scofield) - ( Hebrews 1:4 ).
Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The vision of the heavenly Jerusalem:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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¹² And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

Related Commentaries of Revelation 21:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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