The seventh, resolvable into the ten horns, is no one definite kingdom. 3 . These have also been particularly referred to in Daniel: "The other beast was like a bear, and stood upon one side;" Hävernick: "It stood higher upon the one side than the other, manifestly the posture of assault." 13 Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush was behind them. 1. a lion--13:2. See KNOLLYS: Revelation 20:2 The throne of the beast, is the kingdom of the world, especially the ten crowned kingdoms before mentioned, whereof Great Britain is first, and shall be the last. It rises up out of the sea, as Daniel's four, and has ten horns, as Daniel's fourth beast, and seven heads, as Daniel's four beasts had in all-namely, one on the first, one on the second, four on the third, and one on the fourth. But the name of Mohammed, in the Greek form, as. The dragon, therefore, was personified in the emperor of the Roman empire. So the wild beast primarily represents the bestial nature of earthly empire, summing up in itself all past empires. The gates of the nobles.--The word is used to heighten the contrast between the greatness of the city to be destroyed, with its gates that had witnessed for centuries the entrance of kings and princes, and the wild roughness of the barbarian destroyers. The dragon of chap. 2. The order in which the beasts succeed each other, is here exactly reversed: in Daniel the lion, the bear, the panther—here the panther, the bear, the lion. 13:2: He reigned three years in Jerusalem.His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. Revelation 12:9): his vicegerent the beast must do the same. Satan here also is but a servant of God. 6. For, the common supposition, that the ten horns here may belong to the fourth beast, is hardly tenable. Olshausen observes: "The expression, ‘it is delivered to me,' contains a striking note of contrariety to the doctrine of an independent principle of evil; the prince of this world has received all from God, to whom alone belongs the glory as the eternal and universal Ruler." given by some commentators, has no authority, and, after a thorough investigation by scholars, is shown to be spurious. Chapter 13 1 And Abram came up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was his, and Lot with him, to the south. Such is the sense in which the word ‘kings’ is used both in the Book of Daniel and in the Apocalypse, where there is nothing in the context to compel us to think of personality (comp. It is probable that St. John has the Temptation in the wilderness as described by the earlier Evangelists in his eye. 2. This suggests he is parallel with the fourth beast, ‘terrible, powerful and exceedingly strong with great iron teeth’ (Daniel 7:7) which, at least initially, symbolises Rome, but in the end represents the mega-empire, summing up all empires of all ages. Chapter 12 ended with an encouraging reminder about the nature of the new covenant (Hebrews 12:26–29). дракон См. If the name be made out by mutilations, by giving false letters, or abstracting true ones, almost any name can be made to fit. a 2 Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon themselves. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. 14 Judah turned and saw that they were being attacked at both front and rear. The Reason for Parables (13:10-17) 3. By the dragon, we are to understand that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, Revelation 12:9 and Revelation 20:2. 13:1: Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. The Sower and the Soils (13:1-9) 2. 1 This third time I am coming[ a] to you. For, if we were to explain the promise of Satan as an empty boast, the temptation of Christ would be a thing unworthy of him. Here then in chapter 13 we have the wild beast as Rome. V. Many people today love the sea, but as a whole the Jewish people in Biblical times regarded the sea as a wild, untamed, frightening plac… New Testament. The victory they obtained notwithstanding, by the power of God, 2 Chronicles 13:15-20. 32 It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air can come and shelter in its branches.'. Hence the combination of traits from Daniel’s four beasts: general appearance that of a fierce panther, feet like a bear’s (i.e., plantigrade), jaws like a lion’s (of devouring strength)—a Palestinian (Hosea 13:7-8) picture of a perfect beast of prey, raging and ravening, before whom the church, like Dryden’s milk-white Hind, “was often forced to fly, And doom’d to death, though fated not to die”.— . 1. from Ur to Haran (chapter 11, verse 31) 2. from Haran to the land of Canaan (chapter 12, verse 4) 3. from the land of Canaan to Egypt (chapter 12, verses 10-20 and chapter 13, verse 1)* 4. from Egypt to the Negev (chapter 13, verse 1) 5. from the Negev to Bethel (chapter 13, verse 3) There will not be one stone left upon another that will not be thrown down.” The Signs of the End. Revelation 16:10; for the dragon exercises his dominion on earth by means of the beast. . Inferno, i. But didn’t you drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests … The dark-spotted body of this animal, from which it has its name in Hebrew ( נמר, in Arabic, to be spotted), is an emblem of spiritual staining. And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? ала свою свирепую, истребляющую власть при установлении царства (ср. Hebrews 13:1-2 > NIV KJV ESV NKJV. CHAPTER 13. ( C) son of David. That they may go into the gates of the nobles, Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural, A flag, a sail, a flagstaff, a signal, a token, Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular, Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural, Preposition | third person masculine plural, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural, Voluntary, generous, magnanimous, a grandee, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Isaiah 13:2 Set up a banner on the bare (Isa Isi Is). The "now" is not temporal (as opposed to the "then" of the previous verse), but logical. 2 Samuel 13 - NIV: In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David. Those in nations and governments who persecute the church of Christ, receive their power and their motivation from the dragon, Satan. Satan has always been interested in supporting any institution that is an enemy of God. power. The dragon gave him great power, and his seat and his authority--13:2. Leviticus Rainbow Missions, Inc., Rainbow Missions, Inc.; revision of the American Standard Version of 1901, Ed. “Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. leopard. However, the seven heads representing ‘kings’ are Roman Emperors, for five are fallen, one is and one is coming. Lactantius moreover informs us, that he took a pleasure in feeding bears, which bore so great a resemblance to him in size and brutality. . Isaiah 11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 5. But, if so, chap. Bible > 2 Corinthians > Chapter 8 > Verse 13 ... Verse 13. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. And as the body of the beast was like to a leopard, the centre and capital of the Roman empire, under antichrist will be the Grecian empire, denoted by the leopard, of which Constantinople became the capital. Faith, hope, charity. a. Matthew 2:13 is the thirteenth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. And the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. The world power of the Roman empire could not have been more accurately described. In Matthew 4:8-9, the devil takes Christ along with him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and says to him: "All these will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." 17; and the following remarks may be made:—. These kingdoms are Greece (, "The fact that the leopard of Greece, the bear of Medo-Persia, and the lion of old Babylon. And though Hebrews 2:12-13 are directly connected with the word “brethren,” yet, as the next verse shows, the most important constituent of the thought is community of nature. See KNOLLYS: Revelation 17:10 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 17:11. rending and tearing in pieces all that he takes for his prey. But, as we must exclude all consideration of the ten horns, there remains but one way of explaining the deviation from the order in Daniel; which is, that if it had been retained, one would very naturally have supposed that the particular elements in the composite beast, like the different beasts in Daniel, indicated definite phases of the power of the world in the order here mentioned. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. He represents all empires. It was the great red monster of chapter twelve who initially had the seven heads and the ten horns. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. And the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. The distress which Judah was brought into by the policy of Jeroboam, 2 Chronicles 13:13,14. Its apostasy to picture-worship, mariolatry, and adoration of the eucharist, healed the wound. . 13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, p for there is no authority except that which God has established. The dragon gave him his power-seat-authority; Satan, who had in past ages made use of pagan Rome as an instrument of persecuting God’s church, now transfers to him the same power and authority to be used against Christians. In Septuagint it occurs Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 13:23. The wild beast is Satan’s tool. Significantly that earthly empire will know a cessation and a recommencement so that the final empire is not necessarily Rome although it was Rome in its commencement. As chapter 17 will make clear there is another wild beast, a scarlet beast (known elsewhere as the beast of the abyss), which, while encompassing Rome, signifies more than Rome. Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. His mother’s name was Maakah, # 13:2 Most Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 11:20 and 1 Kings 15:2); Hebrew Micaiah a daughter # 13:2 Or granddaughter of Uriel of Gibeah. The Parable of the Sower. 1 [] On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. The different phases also could not be denoted here by the particular animals entering into the composition of the beast, because John has enlarged the sphere; does not, like Daniel, begin with Babylon, the ungodly power in existence at the time the prophet lived, but goes back to Egypt; so that the bestial forms in Daniel were found insufficient for him, when he was going to apply them to the same purpose. The empire gathered up all the obnoxious qualities of Israel’s former oppressors: craft, lust of blood, and vicious energy. To the beast formed after this manner the dragon gives his power, and his throne, and great authority. (11-15) It obliges all to worship its image, and receive its mark, as persons devoted to it. and perpetuated idol worship in Israel. The orthography of the name should be the orthography of good authority and use. They are now accepted by the beast at the expense of becoming the dragon’s slave and sharing its fate. 2 Corinthians 13:9 Context. ... Bible verse of the day Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. The ten crowns, or diadems, on the ten horns symbolized the royalty and rank that belonged to the ten kings of the tributary kingdoms, and the great universal power of the ten-kingdom empire. i. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 2 Timothy 1:13 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 2 Timothy 1:13, NIV: "What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus." 1. Chapter Contents. These chiefs of the apostasies in the closing days are consigned alive to their eternal doom (Revelation 19:20). Verse 1-6: “Jehoahaz” reigned from 814 to 798 B.C. The form of the beast here is compounded of the different beasts in Daniel; quite naturally so, since the beast here images the ungodly power of the world as a whole, while in Daniel the different phases of this power are represented. In other words, I have no wish that you should distress yourselves to set others at ease. Then they cried out to the Lord. Revelation 13:2. 3. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; 4. Here it refers to this power as exercising dominion on the earth. 13 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. It is to be remembered, too, that the description given us of the power of the beast is a mocking caricature of the power of Christ, and His rule is universal. This should be your first aim, rather than seeking "a proof of Christ speaking in me" (2 Corinthians 13:3). The Explanation of the Sower (13:18-23) 4. We have the interpretation in Jeremiah 13:23,"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard (panther) his spots? But by some this power is supposed to be that of heathen Rome, in which case the seven heads become the seven hills upon which Rome was built, or seven of its emperors. And the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 For rulers are not a cause of fear to good conduct, but to evil. The remonstrance which Abijah made before the battle, setting forth the justice of his cause, 2 Chronicles 13:4-12. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. Now the scene of his vision shifted to the earth, and in his vision he stood on the sand of the sea. Christ refused the sovereignty of the world from Satan (Luke 4:5; Luke 4:8); here is one who accepts it. This is a fitting description of Nero Caesar, in whom "the Neronic anti-Christ was incarnated," who assumed divine names and prerogatives, and commanded the worship of the emperor. The description of the beast's form rests on Daniel, Daniel 7; and Daniel again has respect to Jeremiah 5:6, "Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf out of the deserts shall spoil them; and a panther shall watch upon their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and they are hardened in their disobedience." chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 chapter 12 chapter 13. verse: verse 1 verse 2 verse 3 verse 4 verse 5 verse 6 verse 7 verse 8 verse 9 verse 10 verse 11 verse 12 verse 13 verse 14. 2 Kings Chapter 13. Only here. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 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