Just The Facts said:
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Hello All So what is this city that sits on Seven Hills. That by Default must also be a religious system that has the Blood of Saints on its hands.
The Seven Hills is a MISNOMER from the start. The 7 Headed Beast IS = to the Seven Mountains and they are ALSO 7 Kings.....5 have fallen {Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece} ONE IS {Rome}, and one is YET TO COME {Anti-Christ}.
So the 7 Headed Beast is = to 7 Powers who ARISE. How can it be a city on 7 hills/mountains, when it's 7 different Kingdoms ? !!
That's not even possible since no mountains on the beast fell in the past since it rises with all 7 intact. The manuscripts the KJV do not make this terrible mistake and do not wrongly equate the 7 heads with 7 kings, 6 having fallen long before the beast actually rises from the sea.
I might put that up on the Christian Scriptures board. This is profound.[I have chapter 17 up on this link:
How would the correct rendering change the eschatological views on vss 9 and 10?
Some Bible versions:
Revelation 17:10 biblehub
New American Standard Bible
and
they are seven kings; five have fallen,
King James Bible
And
there are seven kings: five are fallen,....
English Standard Version
they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen
New International Version
They are also seven kings. Five have fallen.............
English Revised Version
and
they are seven kings; the five are fallen
Berean Study Bible
There are also seven kings. Five have fallen,
Darby Bible Translation
And
there are seven kings:
Douay-Rheims Bible
9 upon which the woman sitteth, and
they are seven kings
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Here is a word for word translation from the Greek text and interlinear:
καὶ βασιλεῖς ἑπτά
εἰσιν<eisin 1510> verb present active indicative 3rd person plural
Revelation 17:10
The seven Heads seven Mountains
are-being, where the Woman is sitting upon them.
and kings seven
[they/there] are being, the five fall,
10
καὶ βασιλεῖς ἑπτά εἰσιν· οἱ πέντε ἔπεσαν, ὁ εἷς ἔστιν, ὁ ἄλλος οὔπω1 ἦλθεν, καὶ ὅταν ἔλθῃ ὀλίγον αὐτὸν δεῖ μεῖναι.
Stephens 1550 Textus Receptus
kai basileiV epta eisin oi pente epesan
Revelation 17:10 Commentaries: biblehub
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
10. And there are seven kings] Rather, and
they [the seven heads] are seven kings: they have a double significance—standing both for the seven mountains and the seven kings.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 10. -
And there are seven kings; and they are. Here we have the same idea (cf. ver 9), with a somewhat different aspect. The phrase in ver. 9, "seven mountains," regarded the world power as one universal indivisible whole, without respect to particular times or modes in which it might be exhibited. In this phrase, "seven kings," we have the same world power viewed in its successive exhibitions by different nations;
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(10)
And there are seven kings. . . .—Better.
They are seven kings: five (not “are fallen,” but fell, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he shall come, he must continue a short time
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
10. there are—Translate, "
they (the seven heads) are
seven kings."five … one—Greek, "the five … the one"; the first five of the seven are fallen
Matthew Poole's Commentary
And there are seven kings; the seven heads do not only signify seven hills or mountains, but also seven kings, that is, (according to the best interpretation I meet with),
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
And there are seven kings,.... The Arabic version renders it, "who are seven kings"; and it should be rendered, as it is by the Vulgate Latin, Syriac and Ethiopic versions, "
and they are seven kings";
that is, the seven heads signify seven kings also, for they have in them a double representation, first of seven mountains, and then of seven kings; by which are meant not seven ages of the world, as from Adam to Noah; from Noah to Abraham; from Abraham to David; from David to the Babylonish captivity; from the Babylonish captivity to Christ; from Christ to antichrist; and from antichrist to the end of the world;