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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Revelation 17:13

These kings have one purpose: to yield their power and authority to the beast.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Horn;   Thompson Chain Reference - Unity;   The Topic Concordance - Empires/world Powers;   Judges;   Victory/overcoming;   War/weapons;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Babylon;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Joy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Armageddon;   Revelation of John, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mind;   Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Authority;   Mind;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon the Great ;   Horns;   Prophets, the;   Roman Empire;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Babylon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Authority in Religion;   Give;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
King James Version (1611)
These haue one minde, and shall giue their power and strength vnto the beast.
King James Version
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
New American Standard Bible
"These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
New Century Version
All ten of these kings have the same purpose, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.
English Standard Version
These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Contemporary English Version
They all think alike and will give their power and authority to the beast.
Complete Jewish Bible
They have one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.
Darby Translation
These have one mind, and give their power and authority to the beast.
Easy-to-Read Version
All ten of these rulers have the same purpose. And they will give their power and authority to the beast.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These haue one minde, and shall giue their power, and authoritie vnto the beast.
George Lamsa Translation
These are in one accord, and they shall give their strength and authority to the beast.
Good News Translation
These ten all have the same purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Lexham English Bible
These have one opinion, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.
Literal Translation
These have one mind, and their power and authority they shall give up to the beast.
Amplified Bible
"These [kings] have one purpose [one mind, one common goal], and they give their power and authority to the beast.
American Standard Version
These have one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast.
Bible in Basic English
These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Hebrew Names Version
These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
International Standard Version
They have one purpose: to give their power and authority to the beast.
Etheridge Translation
They have one will, and their power and their authority unto the beast of prey they will give.
Murdock Translation
They have one mind; and they will give their power and authority unto the beast of prey.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These haue one mynde, and shal geue their power & strength vnto the beast.
English Revised Version
These have one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast.
World English Bible
These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
These have one mind, and give their power and authority to the wild beast.
Weymouth's New Testament
They have one common policy, and they are to give their power and authority to the Wild Beast.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These han a counsel, and schulen bitake her vertu and power to the beeste.
Update Bible Version
These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Webster's Bible Translation
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast.
New English Translation
These kings have a single intent, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.
New King James Version
These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.
New Living Translation
They will all agree to give him their power and authority.
New Life Bible
They agree to give the right and the power to the red wild animal.
New Revised Standard
These are united in yielding their power and authority to the beast;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These, have, one mind, and, their power and authority, unto the wild-beast, they give.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These have one design: and their strength and power they shall deliver to the beast.
Revised Standard Version
These are of one mind and give over their power and authority to the beast;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
These have one mynde and shall geve their power and strenghte vnto ye beste.
Young's Literal Translation
these have one mind, and their own power and authority to the beast they shall give over;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These haue one mynde, and shal geue their power and stregth vnto ye beeste.
Mace New Testament (1729)
they all agree in this, to give their power and strength to the beast.
Simplified Cowboy Version
These ten kings will only have one purpose—to make the beast stronger.

Contextual Overview

7"Why are you so amazed?" said the angel. "I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns. 8The beast that you saw-it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be. 9This calls for a mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. 10There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. 11The beast that was, and now is not, is an eighth king, who belongs to the other seven and is going into destruction. 12The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast. 13These kings have one purpose: to yield their power and authority to the beast.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

one: Philippians 1:27, Philippians 2:2

shall: Revelation 17:17, Isaiah 10:5-7, Ezekiel 38:10, Acts 4:28

Reciprocal: Psalms 83:5 - For Jeremiah 4:30 - in vain Jeremiah 28:14 - that they Lamentations 1:2 - among Ezekiel 16:25 - and hast made Ezekiel 23:9 - General Daniel 3:3 - the princes Daniel 7:24 - the ten Daniel 8:24 - but Daniel 11:44 - east Luke 23:12 - General Acts 19:28 - and cried Revelation 13:3 - all Revelation 17:2 - General Revelation 17:16 - these Revelation 18:9 - the kings

Cross-References

Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
Genesis 15:3
Abram continued, "Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir."
Genesis 37:27
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh." And they agreed.
Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
Genesis 39:1
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
Exodus 12:44
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
Exodus 21:16
Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
Nehemiah 5:5
We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These have one mind,.... The princes of these kingdoms, and their subjects, become, in time, of one religion; first they were Arians, and then Papists; and for a long series of time there was great unity between them, with respect to religious sentiments, being zealously attached to the church of Rome, its principles and practices:

and shall give their power and strength unto the beast; the Papal antichrist, the eighth king, and seventh head; to him they have given power to exercise all ecclesiastical authority in their kingdoms; as to ordain bishops, and deliver the pall to whom they will; to excommunicate offenders, and even lay their kingdoms under an interdict when they pleased; and have assisted and defended the popes of Rome with all their force, with all their might and main, and to the utmost of their power, and have engaged in what have been called the holy wars, at their motion; they have given their riches and wealth, which are called the forces of strength, Job 36:19 which they have, by various methods, drained them of; hence the whore of Rome came to be decked with gold, and pearls, and precious stones; yea, they have given them their kingdoms, and have received them from them, and become tributary to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These have one mind - That is, they are united in the promotion of the same object. Though in some respects wholly independent of each other, yet they may be regarded as, in fact, so far united that they tend to promote the same ultimate end. As a fact in history, all these kingdoms, though of different origin, and though not infrequently engaged in war with each other, became Roman Catholics, and were united in the support of the papacy. It was with propriety, therefore, that they should be regarded as so closely connected with that power that they could be represented as “ten horns” on the seven-headed monster.

And shall give their power and strength unto the beast - Shall lend their influence to the support of the papacy, and become the upholders of that power. The meaning, according to the interpretation above proposed, is, that they would all become papal kingdoms, and supporters of the papal power. It is unnecessary to pause to show how true this has been in history. At first, most of the people out of whom these kingdoms sprang were pagans; then many of them embraced Christianity under the prevailing form of Arianism, and this fact was for a time a bar to their perfect adhesion to the Roman see; but they were all ultimately brought wholly under its influence, and became its supporters. In 496 a.d., Clovis, the king of the Franks, on occasion of his victory over the Allemanni, embraced the Catholic faith, and so received the title, transmitted downward through nearly thirteen hundred years to the French kings as his successors, of “the oldest son of the church”; in the course of the sixth century, the kings of Burgundy, Bavaria, Spain, Portugal, England, embraced the same religion, and became the defenders of the papacy. It is well known that each one of the powers above enumerated as constituting these ten kingdoms, became subject to the papacy, and continued so during their separate existence, or when merged into some other power, until the Reformation in the sixteenth century. All “their power and strength was given unto the beast”; all was made subservient to the purposes of papal Rome.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 17:13. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.] Therefore the ten horns must constitute the principal strength of the Latin empire; that is to say, this empire is to be composed of the dominions of ten monarchs independent of each other in every other sense except in their implicit obedience to the Latin Church. The beast in this and the preceding verse is distinguished from its horns, as the WHOLE Latin empire is distinguished in history from its constituent powers. Revelation 17:16.


 
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