Revelation 17:9

The Text-Critical English New Testament

This calls for a mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

Cross References

Matthew 13:11

Jesus answered them, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Matthew 24:15

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

Revelation 13:1

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea that had ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on his horns and blasphemous names on his heads.

Revelation 13:18

This calls for wisdom: Let anyone who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; his number is six hundred sixty-six.

Revelation 17:18

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

Revelation 17:3

So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and 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 yoʋ so amazed? I will tell yoʋ the mystery of the woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.