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启示录 16:6

因為他們曾流聖徒和先知的血,現在你給他們血喝,這是他們該受的。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blood;   God Continued...;   Martyrdom;   Prophets;   Temple;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Blood;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Punishment;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Drink;   Justice;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aceldama;   Adoni-Bezek;   Athaliah;   Issachar;   Net;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Persecution in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Plagues of Egypt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Martyr;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Vials;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bishop;   Blood;   Persecution;   Revelation of John:;   Shed;   Sore;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 曾 流 圣 徒 与 先 知 的 血 , 现 在 你 给 他 们 血 喝 ; 这 是 他 们 所 该 受 的 。

Contextual Overview

1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of God's anger on the earth." 2 The first angel left and poured out his bowl on the land. Then ugly and painful sores came upon all those who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his idol. 3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died. 4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. 5 Then I heard the angel of the waters saying: "Holy One, you are the One who is and who was. You are right to decide to punish these evil people. 6 They have poured out the blood of your holy people and your prophets. So now you have given them blood to drink as they deserve." 7 And I heard a voice coming from the altar saying: "Yes, Lord God Almighty, the way you punish evil people is right and fair."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they have: Revelation 6:10, Revelation 6:11, Revelation 13:10, Revelation 13:15, Revelation 17:6, Revelation 17:7, Revelation 18:24, Revelation 19:2, Deuteronomy 32:42, Deuteronomy 32:43, 2 Kings 24:4, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 51:22, Isaiah 51:23, Jeremiah 2:30, Lamentations 4:13, Matthew 7:2, Matthew 21:35-41, Matthew 23:30-37

for they are: Revelation 11:18, Revelation 18:20, Jeremiah 26:11, Jeremiah 26:16, Luke 12:48, Hebrews 10:29

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:26 - the waters Exodus 21:24 - General Judges 1:7 - as I have Judges 5:2 - for the avenging 1 Samuel 15:33 - As thy sword 2 Samuel 3:29 - rest 2 Samuel 16:8 - returned 2 Kings 10:25 - let 2 Chronicles 24:25 - for the blood Psalms 7:13 - persecutors Psalms 9:12 - When Psalms 79:3 - Their Psalms 109:17 - General Proverbs 13:2 - the soul Isaiah 14:4 - How Isaiah 26:21 - also Isaiah 33:1 - when thou shalt cease Isaiah 63:6 - make Jeremiah 19:4 - filled Jeremiah 26:15 - ye shall Jeremiah 26:19 - Thus Jeremiah 34:17 - behold Jeremiah 50:15 - as she Jeremiah 50:29 - recompense Jeremiah 50:42 - they are cruel Jeremiah 51:35 - The violence Ezekiel 14:23 - that I have not Ezekiel 16:38 - shed Ezekiel 24:9 - Woe Ezekiel 32:6 - water Daniel 7:25 - shall wear out Daniel 8:24 - shall destroy Joel 3:2 - will plead Joel 3:7 - and will Matthew 14:11 - and given Matthew 24:49 - to smite Matthew 26:52 - they Mark 9:42 - it Luke 3:20 - General Luke 6:38 - with Luke 12:45 - to beat Romans 6:21 - for the 2 Thessalonians 1:6 - General 2 Timothy 3:3 - fierce Revelation 9:21 - their murders Revelation 18:6 - Reward

Cross-References

Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."
Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.
Exodus 2:15
When the king heard what Moses had done, he tried to kill him. But Moses ran away from the king and went to live in the land of Midian. There he sat down near a well.
Job 2:6
The Lord said to Satan, "All right, then. Job is in your power, but you may not take his life."
Proverbs 14:29
Patient people have great understanding, but people with quick tempers show their foolishness.
Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer will calm a person's anger, but an unkind answer will cause more anger.
Proverbs 27:8
A person who leaves his home is like a bird that leaves its nest.
Proverbs 29:19
Words alone cannot correct a servant, because even if they understand, they won't respond.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
Don't leave your job just because your boss is angry with you. Remaining calm solves great problems.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,.... Which shows that rivers and fountains cannot be literally understood, but men are designed, wicked and bloody men; and it is notorious to all, how much of the blood of the saints, of the preachers of the Gospel, of the prophets and witnesses, have been shed in Italy, Savoy, and other places near Rome, as well as in Rome itself; see Revelation 17:6.

And thou hast given them blood to drink; sent the sword among them, making great slaughter and devastation; see Isaiah 49:26

for they are worthy; or deserving, to have their blood shed by the law of retaliation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they have shed the blood of saints - The nations here referred to. They have been engaged in scenes of bloody persecution, and this is a just recompense.

And prophets - Teachers of religion; ministers of truth. It is not necessary to understand the word “prophets” here in its technical sense, as denoting those who are raised up by God and sent forth as inspired men, but it may be understood in its more common signification in the New Testament as denoting teachers of religion in general. See the Romans 12:6 note; 1 Corinthians 14:1 note.

And thou hast given them blood to drink - To wit, by turning the streams and fountains into blood, Revelation 16:4. Blood had been poured out in such abundance that it seemed to mingle with the very water that they drank. This was a recompense for their having, in those very regions, poured out so much blood in persecuting the saints and prophets - the pious private members of the church, and the public teachers of religion.

For they are worthy - That is, they deserve this; or this is a just recompense for their sins. It is not intended that those who would thus suffer had been individually guilty of this, or that this was properly a punishment on them; but it is meant that in those countries there had been bloody persecutions, and that this was a fit recompense for what had there occurred.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 16:6. Thou hast given them blood to drink — They thirsted after blood and massacred the saints of God; and now they have got blood to drink! It is said that when Tomyris, queen of the Scythians, had vanquished Cyrus, she cut off his head and threw it into a vessel of blood, saying these words: Satia te sanguine, quem sitisti, cujusque insatiabilis semper fuisti; "Satisfy thyself with blood, for which thou hast thirsted, and for which thy desire has been insatiable." See Justin. Hist., lib. i. c. 8. This figure of speech is called sarcasm in rhetoric.

"Sarcasmus with this biting taunt doth kill:

Cyrus, thy thirst was blood; now drink thy fill."


 
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