Revelation 17:2

Revelation 17:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
• English Standard Version (ESV)with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk."
• New King James Version (NKJV)with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
• New Living Translation (NLT)The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”

Context of Revelation 17:2

1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” 3Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.

Revelation 17:2 word by word

μεθ᾽ ἧς ἐπόρνευσαν οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐμεθύσθησαν οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν γῆν ἐκ τοῦ οἴνου τῆς πορνείας αὐτῆς.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Withμετάmeta · with/afterG3326
• whomὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• the kingsβασιλεύςbasileus · kingG935
• of the earthγῆgē · earth: planetG1093
• have committed fornicationπορνεύωporneuō · to sin sexuallyG4203
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• the inhabitantsκατοικέωkatoikeō · to dwellG2730
• have been made drunkμεθύσκωmethuskō · to get drunkG3182
• withἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• the wineοἶνοςoinos · wineG3631
• of herαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• fornicationπορνείαporneia · sexual sinG4202

Cross-references for Revelation 17:2

• Revelation 17:13They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.
• Revelation 14:8A second angel followed and said, “ ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’ which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”
• Revelation 18:3For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”
• Jeremiah 51:7Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord’s hand; she made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore they have now gone mad.

Commentaries on Revelation 17:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication - What an awful picture this is of the state of the religion of the world in subjection to this whore! Kings have committed spiritual fornication with her, and their subjects have drunk deep, dreadfully deep, into the doctrine of her abominable errors.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication - Spiritual adultery. The meaning is, that papal Rome, unfaithful to God, and idolatrous and corrupt, had seduced the rulers of the earth, and led them into the same kind of unfaithfulness, idolatry, and corruption. Compare Jeremiah 3:8-9; Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 13:27; Jeremiah 23:14; Ezekiel 16:32; Ezekiel 23:37; Hebrews 2:2; Hebrews 4:2. How true this is in history need not be stated. All the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2immoral with her: This is a biblical image for worshiping other gods (see, for example, Exodus 34:12–16; Judges 2:17; Hosea 2). intoxicated with … her immorality: In Scripture, drunkenness often represents nations that engage in reckless and immoral behavior (see Revelation 18:3, 9; Jeremiah 25:27; 51:7; Lamentations 4:21; Ezekiel 23:33).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. drunk with--Greek, "owing to." It cannot be pagan Rome, but papal Rome, if a particular seat of error be meant, but I incline to think that the judgment (Re 18:2) and the spiritual fornication (Re 18:3), though finding their culmination in Rome, are not restricted to it, but comprise the whole apostate Church, Roman, Greek, and even Protestant, so far as it has been seduced from its "first love" (Re 2:4) to Christ, the heavenly Bridegroom, and given…Read the comment

Topics related to Revelation 17:2

• Idolatry

In the dictionaries

• Antichrist
• Carry
• Babylon in the New Testament
• Crime; Crimes
• Drunkenness
• Eschatology of the New Testament
• Freely
• Palestine
• Revelation of John

Commentaries on Revelation 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings