Revelation 17:9

New English Translation

(This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings:

Cross References

Daniel 12:4

“But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

Matthew 13:11

He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

Matthew 24:15

“So when you see the abomination of desolation – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.

Revelation 13:18

This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the beast’s number, for it is man’s number, and his number is 666.

Revelation 17:18

As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 17:3

So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17:7

But the angel said to me, “Why are you astounded? I will interpret for you the mystery of the woman and of the beast with the seven heads and ten horns that carries her.