Revelation 18:24 NIV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 18:9-24

Reactions to Babylon’s fall (18:9-19:5)Those who grew prosperous through their commerce with the city weep and mourn at its destruction. The rulers of the nations stand afar off, watching the destruction but doing nothing to help the city in its distress (9-10). Merchants and businessmen mourn for the burning city, not because they have any love for it, but because they have no more market for their goods. Like the rulers they are guided by motives that are entirely selfish. They are distressed... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 18:24

prophets. App-189 . saints. See Revelation 18:20 (holy). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 18:24

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.And in her was found the blood ... prophets ... saints ... and of all that have been slain upon the earth ... Is this mere hyperbole? No! If the religious wars promulgated to advance the harlot's designs are remembered, the figure appears appropriate enough. Furthermore, the murder of one is, in principle, the murder of all. There is no single literal city of earth that answers to this, not... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:21-24

Revelation 18:21-24. A mighty angel took up a stone, &c.— Farther to confirm the sudden fall and irrecoverable destruction of Rome, an emblem is given, similar to that in Jeremiah 51:63-64. A mighty angel casteth a milstone into the sea, Rev 18:21 declaring, that with the same violence this great city shall be cast down, and shall never rise again. Her utter desolation is farther described, Rev 18:22-23 in phrases similar to those of the ancient prophets (Isaiah 24:8. Jeremiah 7:34;... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 18:24

24. Applied by Christ ( :-) to apostate Jerusalem, which proves that not merely the literal city Rome, and the Church of Rome (though the chief representative of the apostasy), but the WHOLE of the faithless Church of both the Old and New Testament is meant by Babylon the harlot; just as the whole Church (Old and New Testament) is meant by "the woman" ( :-). As to literal city, ARINGHUS in BENGEL says, Pagan Rome was the "general shambles" for slaying the sheep of Jesus. FRED. SEYLER in BENGEL... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 18:21-24

The second angelic announcement of judgment 18:21-24 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 18:24

The third reason for Babylon’s judgment is that she slew the saints (cf. Jeremiah 51:35-36; Jeremiah 51:49). The angel stated this reason as a fact rather than as an accusation. The responsibility for the blood of God’s servants martyred for their testimonies lies at the feet of this system. The murder of prophets is especially serious since they bore the word of God, but killing any saint is bad enough. Unbelievers have killed many believers, directly and indirectly, in their pursuit of... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 18:1-24

The Fall of BabylonIn the last c., the fall of Rome, and the manner of its fall, were prophetically announced. In this c., the greatness of the tragedy is shown by songs of thanksgiving and of lamentation which it calls forth.As was suggested on Revelation 17, we may believe that the songs of the joy of angels over sinners that repent have taken the place of these songs. Yet they serve their purpose in encouraging God’s people to faith and endurance when at any time wickedness and worldliness... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 18:24

(24) And in her was found . . .—It is not by seductiveness only that her guilt is measured: her hands are defiled with blood: the blood of prophets, who had witnessed against her: of saints, whose holy lives were a protest against her sins, and so hateful to her; and “of all who have been slain on the earth.” (Comp. Revelation 17:6, and Note there.) It is not meant that literally all the blood shed by violence had been shed by Rome, or any other single city of which Babylon is type: all that is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Revelation 18:1-24

Revelation 18:2 Here we are at Treves. I need not tell you all I have felt here and at Fleissen. At first the feeling that one is standing over the skeleton of the giant iniquity old Rome is overpowering. And as I stood last night in that amphitheatre, amid the wild beasts' dens, and thought of the Christian martyrdoms and the Frank prisoners, and all the hellish scenes of agony and cruelty that place had witnessed, I seemed to hear the very voice of the Archangel whom St. John heard in Patmos,... read more