Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

They should not

They should be

And their

Bible References

It was

Revelation 13:5
He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months;
John 19:11
Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

They should not

Revelation 11:7
But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

They should be

Revelation 9:10
their tails and their stings were like scorpions', and their power of hurting men for five months lay in their tails;

And their

Revelation 9:3
And out of the smoke came locusts on the earth; they were granted power like the power wielded by scorpions on earth,