Revelation 11

1A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.Cross-references: Num 33:18 · Isa 28:17 · Ezek 40:1 · Ezek 42:15 · Zech 2:1 · 1Cor 3:16 · +7 more

2Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.Cross-references: Num 14:34 · Ps 79:1 · Isa 48:2 · Isa 52:1 · Lam 1:10 · Ezek 40:17 · +21 more

3I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”Cross-references: Gen 37:34 · Num 11:26 · Deut 17:6 · Deut 19:15 · 1Chr 21:16 · Esth 4:1 · +22 more

4These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.Cross-references: Ex 8:22 · Deut 10:8 · 1Ki 17:1 · Ps 52:8 · Isa 54:5 · Jer 11:16 · +7 more

5If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.Cross-references: Num 16:28 · 2Ki 1:10 · Ps 18:8 · Isa 11:4 · Jer 1:10 · Jer 5:14 · +5 more

6These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.Cross-references: Ex 7:17 · 1Sam 4:8 · 1Ki 17:1 · Ps 105:26 · Ezek 7:1 · Luke 4:25 · +1 more

7When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.Cross-references: Dan 7:21 · Dan 7:25 · Dan 8:23 · Zech 14:2 · Luke 13:32 · John 17:4 · +12 more

8Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 19:24 · Ex 1:13 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 20:2 · Ps 78:43 · +30 more

9From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.Cross-references: Ps 79:2 · Eccl 6:3 · Isa 33:1 · Jer 7:33 · Matt 7:2 · Rev 5:8 · +6 more

10Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.Cross-references: Judg 16:23 · 1Ki 18:17 · 1Ki 21:20 · 1Ki 22:8 · 1Ki 22:18 · Neh 8:10 · +23 more

11After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Josh 2:9 · Jer 33:9 · Ezek 37:5 · Hos 3:5 · Acts 5:5 · +5 more

12I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.Cross-references: Ex 14:25 · 2Ki 2:1 · 2Ki 2:5 · 2Ki 2:7 · 2Ki 2:11 · Ps 15:1 · +15 more

13In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.Cross-references: Gen 6:4 · Josh 7:19 · 1Sam 6:5 · Isa 26:15 · Jer 13:16 · Mal 2:2 · +13 more

14The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.Cross-references: Rev 8:13 · Rev 9:12 · Rev 15:1 · Rev 16:1

15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”Cross-references: Ex 15:18 · Ps 2:2 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:11 · Ps 86:9 · Ps 89:15 · +43 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

16The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God’s throne, fell on their faces and worshiped God,Cross-references: Rev 4:4 · Rev 4:10 · Rev 5:5 · Rev 5:14 · Rev 7:11 · Rev 19:4

17saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and reigned.Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Ps 21:13 · Ps 57:11 · Ps 64:9 · Ps 98:1 · Ps 102:13 · +20 more

18The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”Cross-references: Ps 2:1 · Ps 2:5 · Ps 85:9 · Ps 103:11 · Ps 110:5 · Ps 115:13 · +39 more

19God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.Cross-references: Ex 9:18 · Ex 25:21 · Num 4:5 · Num 4:15 · Num 10:33 · Josh 10:11 · +21 more