Revelation 11:8

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Revelation 11:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

7 When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.

8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.

9 For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

10 And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

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Revelation 11:9

For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

Psalms 79:2

They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

Psalms 79:3

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Revelation 11:13

And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 14:8

Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Revelation 16:19

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

Revelation 17:5

And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 18:2

And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

Revelation 18:10

In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

Revelation 18:18

and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim.

Revelation 18:21

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 19:24

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Jeremiah 23:14

And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”

Ezekiel 16:53

But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.

Ezekiel 16:54

So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.

Ezekiel 16:55

And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.

Amos 4:11

“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Matthew 10:15

Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

2 Peter 2:6

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

Jude 1:7

In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

Exodus 1:13

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Exodus 3:7

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Exodus 20:2

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Psalms 78:43

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalms 78:44

He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

Psalms 78:45

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalms 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:47

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Psalms 78:48

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Psalms 78:49

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Psalms 78:50

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalms 78:51

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

Revelation 18:24

And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.

Luke 13:33

Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Acts 9:4

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

Hebrews 6:6

and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.

Hebrews 13:12

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.