Revelation 17:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated:

Cross References

Revelation 13:18

Now for the gift of interpretation! Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.

Revelation 17:7

But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman, and of the Beast with the seven heads and the ten horns who carries her.

Revelation 17:18

As for the woman you have seen, she is the great City which reigns over the kings of the earth."

Revelation 17:3

So he bore me away rapt in the Spirit to the desert, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet Beast covered with blasphemous titles; it had seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 13:1

Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads.

Matthew 24:15

So when you see the appalling Horror spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing erect in the holy place (let the reader note this),

Matthew 13:11

He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.