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Revelation 19:13

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Astronomy;   Horse;   Jesus Continued;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Vision;   Word;   Scofield Reference Index - Armageddon;   Day (of Christ);   Day (of Jehovah);   Thompson Chain Reference - Names;   Titles and Names;   Vesture;   Word the, Christ as;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Government;   Jesus Christ;   Name;   War/weapons;   Word of God;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Titles and Names of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Word;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Crown;   Jesus christ;   Prophecy, prophet;   Revelation, book of;   War;   Word;   Wrath;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Armageddon;   Color, Symbolic Meaning of;   Dead Sea Scrolls;   Nahum, Theology of;   War, Holy War;   Word;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Word, the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Armageddon;   Cherub (1);   Joshua;   Name;   Revelation of John, the;   War;   Word, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Army;   Logos;   Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Baptism;   John, Theology of;   Logos;   Name, Names;   Revelation, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   Angels;   Ascension (2);   Baptism;   Blood;   Clothes;   Day of Christ;   Eschatology;   Isaiah ;   Logos;   Mediator;   Revelation, Book of;   Supremacy;   Trade and Commerce;   Trinity (2);   Word;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Horse;   Prophets, the;   Word, the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Names titles and offices of christ;   Word;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Apparel;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dip;   Logos;   Peter, Simon;   Revelation of John:;   Word;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Revelation (Book of);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.
King James Version (1611)
And hee was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood, and his name is called, The word of God.
King James Version
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
New American Standard Bible
He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
New Century Version
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
English Standard Version
He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
Berean Standard Bible
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
Contemporary English Version
The rider wore a robe that was covered with blood, and he was known as "The Word of God."
Complete Jewish Bible
He was wearing a robe that had been soaked in blood, and the name by which he is called is, "THE WORD OF GOD."
Darby Translation
and [he is] clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God.
Easy-to-Read Version
He was dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and he was called the Word of God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he was clothed with a garment dipt in blood, and his name is called The vvorde of God.
George Lamsa Translation
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and he called his name, The Word of God.
Good News Translation
The robe he wore was covered with blood. His name is "The Word of God."
Lexham English Bible
And he was dressed in an outer garment dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.
Literal Translation
and having been clothed in a garment which had been dipped in blood. And His name is called The Word of God.
Amplified Bible
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
American Standard Version
And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Bible in Basic English
And he is clothed in a robe washed with blood: and his name is The Word of God.
Hebrew Names Version
He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God."
International Standard Version
He is dressed in a robe dipped insprinkled with
">[fn] blood, and his name is called the Word of God.Isaiah 63:2-3; John 1:1; 1 John 5:7;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And he was arrayed in a vestment sprinkled with blood, and his name was called The Word of Aloha.
Murdock Translation
And he was clothed with a vesture sprinkled with blood; and his name is called, The Word of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood, and his name is called the worde of God.
English Revised Version
And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
World English Bible
He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he is clothed in a vesture dipt in blood, and his name is called, The Word of God.
Weymouth's New Testament
The outer garment in which He is clad has been dipped in blood and His name is THE WORD OF GOD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he was clothid in a cloth spreynt with blood; and the name of hym was clepid The sone of God.
Update Bible Version
And he [is] arrayed in a garment dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called, The Word of God.
New English Translation
He is dressed in clothing dipped in blood, and he is called the Word of God.
New King James Version
He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
New Living Translation
He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his title was the Word of God.
New Life Bible
The coat He wears has been put in blood. His name is The Word of God.
New Revised Standard
He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and arrayed with a mantle sprinkled with blood, and his name hath been called - The Word of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood. And his name is called: THE WORD OF GOD.
Revised Standard Version
He is clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he was clothed with a vesture dipt in bloud and and hys name ys called the worde of God.
Young's Literal Translation
and he is arrayed with a garment covered with blood, and his name is called, The Word of God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he was clothed with a vesture dipt in bloude, and his name is called, ye worde of God.
Mace New Testament (1729)
he had a vesture dipt in blood: and his name is called, the logos of God.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The clothes he wore were covered in blood. His name is the Word of God.

Contextual Overview

11Then I saw Heaven open wide—and oh! a white horse and its Rider. The Rider, named Faithful and True, judges and makes war in pure righteousness. His eyes are a blaze of fire, on his head many crowns. He has a Name inscribed that's known only to himself. He is dressed in a robe soaked with blood, and he is addressed as "Word of God." The armies of Heaven, mounted on white horses and dressed in dazzling white linen, follow him. A sharp sword comes out of his mouth so he can subdue the nations, then rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the raging wrath of God, the Sovereign-Strong. On his robe and thigh is written, King of kings, Lord of lords. 17I saw an Angel standing in the sun, shouting to all flying birds in Middle-Heaven, "Come to the Great Supper of God! Feast on the flesh of kings and captains and champions, horses and their riders. Eat your fill of them all—free and slave, small and great!" 19I saw the Beast and, assembled with him, earth's kings and their armies, ready to make war against the One on the horse and his army. The Beast was taken, and with him, his puppet, the False Prophet, who used signs to dazzle and deceive those who had taken the mark of the Beast and worshiped his image. They were thrown alive, those two, into Lake Fire and Brimstone. The rest were killed by the sword of the One on the horse, the sword that comes from his mouth. All the birds held a feast on their flesh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

clothed: Revelation 14:20, Psalms 58:10, Isaiah 9:5, Isaiah 34:3-8, Isaiah 63:1-6

The: John 1:1, John 1:14, 1 John 1:1, 1 John 5:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:7 - let his hands Psalms 68:11 - company Isaiah 63:3 - trodden Ezekiel 30:3 - the time Ezekiel 34:24 - a prince Daniel 8:11 - the prince Micah 2:13 - their Micah 5:9 - hand Zechariah 9:15 - they shall devour Zechariah 10:4 - of him came forth Zechariah 10:5 - because Matthew 17:2 - his face Ephesians 1:21 - every James 2:7 - worthy Revelation 2:17 - a new Revelation 6:15 - the kings Revelation 19:16 - on his vesture

Cross-References

Genesis 13:13
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .
Genesis 18:20
God continued, "The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I'm going down to see for myself, see if what they're doing is as bad as it sounds. Then I'll know."
Genesis 19:1
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening. Lot was sitting at the city gate. He saw them and got up to welcome them, bowing before them and said, "Please, my friends, come to my house and stay the night. Wash up. You can rise early and be on your way refreshed." They said, "No, we'll sleep in the street."
Genesis 19:6
Lot went out, barring the door behind him, and said, "Brothers, please, don't be vile! Look, I have two daughters, virgins; let me bring them out; you can take your pleasure with them, but don't touch these men—they're my guests."
Genesis 19:9
They said, "Get lost! You drop in from nowhere and now you're going to tell us how to run our lives. We'll treat you worse than them!" And they charged past Lot to break down the door.
Genesis 19:12
The two men said to Lot, "Do you have any other family here? Sons, daughters—anybody in the city? Get them out of here, and now! We're going to destroy this place. The outcries of victims here to God are deafening; we've been sent to blast this place into oblivion."
Genesis 19:15
At break of day, the angels pushed Lot to get going, "Hurry. Get your wife and two daughters out of here before it's too late and you're caught in the punishment of the city."
Genesis 19:16
Lot was dragging his feet. The men grabbed Lot's arm, and the arms of his wife and daughters— God was so merciful to them!—and dragged them to safety outside the city. When they had them outside, Lot was told, "Now run for your life! Don't look back! Don't stop anywhere on the plain—run for the hills or you'll be swept away."
Isaiah 36:10
"‘And besides, do you think I came all this way to destroy this land without first getting God 's blessing? It was your God who told me, Make war on this land. Destroy it.'"
Isaiah 37:36
Then the Angel of God arrived and struck the Assyrian camp—185,000 Assyrians died. By the time the sun came up, they were all dead—an army of corpses! Sennacherib, king of Assyria, got out of there fast, back home to Nineveh. As he was worshiping in the sanctuary of his god Nisroch, he was murdered by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer. They escaped to the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon became the next king.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood,.... Either in his own, by which he became the Saviour of his church and people; or else in the blood of his saints, he now comes to avenge; or rather in the blood of his enemies, with which he appears as stained, before the battle is fought, the victory being sure, and their slaughter unavoidable: the metaphor is taken from persons treading in a winepress, whose garments are stained with blood of grapes; see Revelation 19:15. Here may be also an allusion to the Roman general's vesture, which was sometimes purple or scarlet, in which he fought, as did Lucullus s.

And his name is called the Word of God; the name of Christ, often used by John in his Gospel, epistles, and in this book, John 1:1 1 John 1:1. Of the signification, reason, and import of this name, 1 John 1:1- :. The reason why he is called by it here may be partly to express his greatness, glory, and majesty, this being a name which principally belongs to him, is a person, as the Creator of all things, and as previous to his incarnation; and partly because all the promises of God in his word, and which are all yea, and amen in Christ, will be now shortly fulfilled.

s Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 1. c. 20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood - Red, as if dipped in blood - emblem of slaughter. The original of this image is probably Isaiah 63:2-3. See the notes on that passage.

And his name is called The Word of God - The name which in Revelation 19:12, it is said that no one knew but he himself. This name is Ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ Ho logos tou Theou, or “the Logos of God.” That is, this is his unique name; a name which belongs only to him, and which distinguishes him from all other beings. The name “Logos,” as applicable to the Son of God, and expressive of his nature, is found in the New Testament only in the writings of John, and is used by him to denote the higher or divine nature of the Saviour. In regard to its meaning, and the reason why it is applied to him, see the notes on John 1:1. The reader also may consult, with great advantage, an article by Prof. Stuart in the Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. vii. pp. 16-31. The following may be some of the reasons why it is said Revelation 19:12 that no one understands this but he himself:

  1. No one but he can understand its full import, as it implies so high a knowledge of the nature of the Deity;

(2)No one but he can understand the relation which it supposes in regard to God, or the relation of the Son to the Father;

(3)No one but he can understand what is implied in it, regarded as the method in which God reveals himself to his creatures on earth;

(4)No one but he can understand what is implied in it in respect to the manner in which God makes himself known to other worlds.

It may be added, as a further illustration of this, that none of the attempts made to explain it have left the matter so that there are no questions unsolved which one would be glad to ask.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 19:13. He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood — To show that he was just come from recent slaughter. The description is taken from Isaiah 63:2-3, where Judas Maccabaeus, or some other conqueror, is described.

The Word of God. — Written in the Targum, and in other Jewish writings, מימרא דיי meimera daiya, "the word of Jehovah;" by which they always mean a person, and not a word spoken. John 1:1, &c.


 
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