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Revelation 12:6

What does Revelation 12:6 mean?

A plain-English look at Revelation 12:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Revelation 12:6 means

With the child secured, the woman flees into the wilderness to a place prepared by God, where she is nourished for a thousand two hundred and threescore days. The wilderness recalls a pattern of trial combined with divine care: a place away from centers of power, yet under God’s provision. The specified period signals a measured, limited time of hardship under God’s sovereignty. The point is not escape from reality but preservation within it. God’s people are kept and fed during seasons of persecution and displacement. The same God who enthroned the child now sustains the woman, showing that His saving purpose includes both the Messiah’s triumph and His people’s ongoing protection.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and the woman did flee to the wilderness, where she hath a place made ready from God, that there they may nourish her--days a thousand, two hundred, sixty.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed her, a thousand two hundred sixty days.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has there a place prepared ofGod, that they should nourish her there a thousand two hundred [and] sixty days.

Context

After Christ’s enthronement, attention returns to the woman. Verse 6 assures readers that God provides for His people during the dragon’s activity. This earthly preservation will be further explained after an interlude in heaven. The next section (verses 7–9) pulls back the curtain to show a war in heaven, revealing why the dragon’s fury is concentrated on earth. Seeing this flow helps readers connect the woman’s wilderness care with the devil’s subsequent confinement and wrath below.

v.5And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.

v.6This passage

v.7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angelsgoing forthto war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 4:11

    Then the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

  • Revelation 11:2

    And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

  • 1 Kings 17:9

    Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.

  • 1 Kings 17:3

    Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

  • Revelation 12:4

    And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.

  • Revelation 12:14

    And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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