Pahayag 17:2

Filipino Cebuano Bible

2 kang kinsa nakighilawas ang mga hari sa yuta, ug sa kang kinsang bino sa pagkamakihilawason nangahubog ang mga nanagpuyo sa yuta."

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Revelation 17:13, Revelation 17:17, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 18:23, Jeremiah 51:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:16 - and go a Judges 18:24 - what have Job 21:7 - mighty Job 24:22 - draweth Proverbs 5:3 - the lips Proverbs 23:28 - increaseth Isaiah 23:17 - shall commit Jeremiah 4:30 - in vain Daniel 3:2 - sent Hosea 1:2 - for Nahum 3:19 - upon Habakkuk 2:15 - unto 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - the living Revelation 2:22 - and them Revelation 9:21 - nor of their fornication Revelation 17:16 - the ten Revelation 18:6 - the cup Revelation 19:2 - judged Revelation 20:3 - should deceive

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,.... These are the ten kings, who being of the same mind, and of one religion, the Popish religion, gave their power, strength, and kingdom to the beast, Revelation 17:12 and have been enticed by the whore of Rome to commit spiritual fornication with her; that is, idolatry, to worship, as that church enjoins, idols of gold, silver, brass, and wood, the images of the virgin Mary, and other saints; hence this whore appears to be no mean strumpet, but one of great note, and in much vogue, being sought after and made use of by the great men of the earth;

and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication; that is, the inhabitants of the Roman empire, or earthly minded men, mere carnal persons, have been drawn into idolatrous practices by the allurements of the church of Rome; such as riches, honours, pleasures, lying miracles, and great pretensions to devotion and religion; whereby they have been intoxicated as men with wine, and have been filled with a blind zeal for that church, and the false doctrines and worship of it, and with madness and fury against the true professors of religion.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication - Spiritual adultery. The meaning is, that papal Rome, unfaithful to God, and idolatrous and corrupt, had seduced the rulers of the earth, and led them into the same kind of unfaithfulness, idolatry, and corruption. Compare Jeremiah 3:8-9; Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 13:27; Jeremiah 23:14; Ezekiel 16:32; Ezekiel 23:37; Hebrews 2:2; Hebrews 4:2. How true this is in history need not be stated. All the princes and kings of Europe in the dark ages, and for many centuries were, and not a few of them are now, entirely under the influence of papal Rome.

And the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication - The alluring cup which, as an harlot, she had extended to them. See this image explained in the notes on Revelation 14:8. There it is said that Babylon - referring to the same thing - had “made them drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication”; that is, of the cup that led to wrath or punishment. Here it is said that the harlot had made them “drunk with the wine of her fornication”; that is, they had been, as it were, intoxicated by the alluring cup held out to them. What could better describe the influence of Rome on the people of the world, in making them, under these delusions, incapable of sober judgment, and in completely fascinating and controlling all their powers?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 17:2. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. — What an awful picture this is of the state of the religion of the world in subjection to this whore! Kings have committed spiritual fornication with her, and their subjects have drunk deep, dreadfully deep, into the doctrine of her abominable errors.