Revelation 9:5

Weymouth NT

Their mission was not to kill, but to cause awful agony for five months; and this agony was like that which a scorpion inflicts when it stings a man.

Cross References

John 19:11

»You would have had no power whatever over me,« replied Jesus, »had it not been granted you from above. On that account he who has delivered me up to you is more guilty than you are.«

Revelation 11:7

»And when they have fully delivered their testimony, the Wild Beast which is to rise out of the bottomless pit will make war upon them and overcome them and kill them.

Revelation 13:5

And there was given him a mouth full of boastful and blasphemous words; and liberty of action was granted him for forty-two months.

Revelation 13:7

And permission was given him to make war upon God's people and conquer them; and power was given him over every tribe, people, language and nation.

Revelation 9:10

They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months.

Revelation 9:3

And from the midst of the smoke there came locusts on to the earth, and power was given to them resembling the power which earthly scorpions possess.