Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 12

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Revelation 12 . 1 , A woman clothed with the sun travails; Revelation 12 . 4 , The great red dragon stands before her , ready to devour her child; Revelation 12 . 6 , when she is delivered she flees into the wilderness; Revelation 12 . 7 , Michael and his angels fight with the dragon , and prevail; Revelation 12 . 13 , The dragon , being cast down into the earth , persecutes the woman.

Revelation 12:1

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

Revelation 12:1 · BSB

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Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Revelation 12:2 · BSB

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Revelation 12:3

Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.

Revelation 12:3 · BSB

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Revelation 12:4

His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.

Revelation 12:4 · BSB

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Revelation 12:5

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

Revelation 12:5 · BSB

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Revelation 12:6

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

Revelation 12:6 · BSB

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Revelation 12:7

Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

Revelation 12:7 · BSB

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Revelation 12:8

But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels.

Revelation 12:8 · BSB

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Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Revelation 12:9 · BSB

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Revelation 12:10

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.

Revelation 12:10 · BSB

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Revelation 12:11

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

Revelation 12:11 · BSB

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Revelation 12:12

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”

Revelation 12:12 · BSB

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Revelation 12:13

And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

Revelation 12:13 · BSB

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Revelation 12:14

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Revelation 12:14 · BSB

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Revelation 12:15

Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

Revelation 12:15 · BSB

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Revelation 12:16

But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.

Revelation 12:16 · BSB

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Revelation 12:17

And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.

Revelation 12:17 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web17 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Revelation 12:1 → Genesis 37:9, Revelation 12:12 → Genesis 3:1, 14, Revelation 12:13-16 → Genesis 3:15, Revelation 12:14 → Exodus 19:4, Revelation 12:17 → Genesis 3:15, Revelation 12:2 → Isaiah 26:17-18, Revelation 12:2 → Isaiah 66:7-9, Revelation 12:2 → Micah 4:9-10, Revelation 12:3 → Ezekiel 29:3, Revelation 12:4 → Daniel 8:10, Revelation 12:9 → Genesis 3:15
Echoes Revelation 12:6 → Exodus 16:32, Revelation 12:8 → Daniel 2:35
Trajectories
Eve (Mother of All Living), Seed Promise (Redemption Through Offspring)
Chiasms
Shaped Revelation 12:3–17, Revelation 12:7–8
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