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Revelation 1:12 KJV
Revelation · chapter 1 · verse 12
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;Revelation 1:12 · King James Version
Revelation 1:12 in context
10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
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Key words (Strong's)
- turnedepistrephōtransitively, to turn to, to the worship of the true God, to cause to return, to bring…G1994 →
- goldenchrysousgolden, made of gold, overlaid or covered with goldG5552 →
- voicephōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
- spakelaleōto utter a voice or emit a sound, to speak, to use the tongue or the faculty of speech…G2980 →
- sevenheptasevenG2033 →
- seeblepōto see, discern, of the bodily eye, with the bodily eye to be possessed of sight, have…G991 →
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We have now come to that glorious vision which the apostle had of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he came to deliver this revelation to him, where observe, I. The account given of the person who was favoured with this vision. He describes himself, 1. By his present state and condition.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-20