Revelation 17:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² [She] with whom the rulers of the earth have joined in prostitution (idolatry) and with the wine of whose immorality (idolatry) the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated. [Jer. 25:15, 16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

Common English Bible

² The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on earth have become drunk with the wine of her whoring.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² With her, the kings of the earth have fornicated. And those who inhabit the earth have been inebriated by the wine of her prostitution."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they who inhabit the earth, have been made drunk with the whine of her whoredom.

Revelation 17:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand; that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

Nahum 3:4

because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

John 2:10

and saith unto him, Every man setteth on first the good wine; and when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse: thou hast kept the good wine until now.

Revelation 14:8

And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, which hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Revelation 17:13

These have one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast.

Revelation 17:17

For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

Revelation 17:5

and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 17:8

The 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.

Revelation 18:23

and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.

Revelation 18:3

For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

Revelation 18:9

And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,

Revelation 2:22

Behold, I do cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works.

Revelation 3:10

Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Revelation 9:21

and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.