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16 He has a name written on his cloak and on his thigh, “King of kings and Lord of lords.”(A)

17 [a]Then I saw an angel standing on the sun. He cried out [in] a loud voice to all the birds flying high overhead, “Come here. Gather for God’s great feast, 18 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of military officers, and the flesh of warriors, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of all, free and slave, small and great.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:17–21 The certainty of Christ’s victory is proclaimed by an angel, followed by a reference to the mustering of enemy forces and a fearsome description of their annihilation. The gruesome imagery is borrowed from Ez 39:4, 17–20.

16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:(A)

king of kings and lord of lords.(B)

17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds(C) flying in midair,(D) “Come,(E) gather together for the great supper of God,(F) 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people,(G) free and slave,(H) great and small.”(I)

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