Revelation 11 (NET)

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Revelation 11:1¹Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told, “Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 21:15 Ezek 42:15-20 Zech 2:1-2 1 Cor 3:16-17 Ezek 40:1-48 1 Pet 2:5 Eph 2:20-22 Isa 28:17 1 Pet 2:9 2 Cor 6:16

Revelation 11:2²But do not measure the outer courtyard of the temple; leave it out, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 7:25 Luke 21:24 Rev 12:6 Dan 12:7 Rev 11:3 Dan 12:11-12 Isa 52:1 Rev 13:1-18 Rev 21:2 Dan 8:24-25

Revelation 11:5⁵If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and completely consumes their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 5:14 2 Kgs 1:10-12 Hos 6:5 Isa 11:4 Num 16:28-35 Ps 18:8 Jer 1:10 Zech 2:8 Zech 1:6 Acts 9:4-5

Revelation 11:6⁶These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:1 Luke 4:25 Exod 7:17-25 Ps 105:26-36 1 Sam 4:8 Jas 5:16-18 Ezek 7:1-12

Revelation 11:7⁷When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 13:7 Dan 8:23-24 Dan 7:25 Dan 7:21-22 John 17:4 Luke 13:32 2 Thess 2:8-9 Acts 20:24 Rev 11:3 Rev 13:1-4

Revelation 11:8⁸Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:14 Rev 18:10 Ezek 16:53-55 Heb 13:12 Rev 18:21 2 Pet 2:6 Amos 4:11 Jude 1:7 Matt 10:15 Rev 11:9

Revelation 11:9⁹For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 79:2-3 Rev 17:15 Rev 10:11 Rev 11:11 Rev 11:2-3 Eccl 6:3 Matt 7:2 Rev 13:7 Isa 33:1 Jer 7:33

Revelation 11:10¹⁰And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:17 1 Kgs 22:8 Acts 5:33 Acts 7:54-57 John 7:7 Matt 10:22 Mic 7:8 Ps 35:24-26 Rev 11:5-6 Rev 13:14

Revelation 11:11¹¹But after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized those who were watching them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 2:7 Rom 8:11 Rom 8:2 Ezek 37:5-14 Acts 5:5 Rev 11:9 Acts 5:11 Hos 3:5 Jer 33:9 Rev 11:13

Revelation 11:12¹²Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them: “Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:11 Acts 1:9 Rev 4:1 1 Thess 4:17 Eph 2:5-6 Rev 12:5 2 Kgs 2:1 2 Kgs 2:5 Isa 40:31 Isa 60:8

Revelation 11:13¹³Just then a major earthquake took place and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 14:7 Rev 6:12 Josh 7:19 Jer 13:16 Rev 11:11 Rev 11:19 Rev 15:4 Rev 16:18-19 Rev 16:9-11 Rev 8:5

Revelation 11:14¹⁴The second woe has come and gone; the third is coming quickly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 8:13 Rev 9:12 Rev 15:1 Rev 16:1-21

Revelation 11:15¹⁵Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 7:14 Rev 12:10 Dan 7:27 Rev 10:7 Rev 19:1 Zech 14:9 Luke 1:33 Exod 15:18 Dan 2:44-45 Dan 7:18

Revelation 11:16¹⁶Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped GodCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 4:4 Rev 4:10 Rev 7:11 Rev 19:4 Rev 5:14 Rev 5:5-8

Revelation 11:17¹⁷with these words: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and begun to reign.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 1:8 Rev 16:5 Rev 1:4 Rev 19:6 Rev 4:8-9 Ps 21:13 Rev 19:11-20:3 1 Tim 1:12 Gen 17:1 Isa 51:9-11

Revelation 11:18¹⁸The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 19:5 Rev 20:12 Rev 13:10 Rev 6:10-11 Rev 20:4-5 Rev 22:12 Heb 11:25-26 Mic 7:15-17 Ps 103:11 Ps 115:13-14

Revelation 11:19¹⁹Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 16:21 Ezek 38:22 Rev 15:5-8 Rev 4:5 Isa 30:30 Rev 8:5 Rev 11:15 Rev 14:15-17 Rev 19:11 2 Cor 3:14-16

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