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Revelation 17:9

Revelation chapter 17 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:

Context

v.8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

v.9This passage

v.10and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.

Cross references

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

  • Hosea 14:9

    Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

  • Revelation 17:7

    And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.

  • Matthew 24:15

    When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),

  • Revelation 13:18

    Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.

  • Revelation 17:18

    And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

  • Revelation 17:3

    And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.