Revelation 9:5 (KJV)

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And to them it was given that they should not kill them but that they should be tormented five months and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man

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it was. Re 13:5 Re 13:7 Da 5:18-22 Da 7:6 Joh 19:11

they should not.That is, should not kill them as a political body, state, or empire; and accordingly, however they desolated the Greek and Latin churches, they could not extirpate them, nor gain possession of the empire. Re 11:7 Job 2:6

they should be. Re 9:10

and their. Re 9:3

five.Five prophetical months, each consisting of 30 days, and each day denoting a year, amount to 150 years; and accordingly, from the time that Mohammed began to propagate his imposture A.D. 612, the building of Bagdad, when they ceased from their ravages, A.D. 763, are just 150 years.

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