Revelation 13:9-11

The First Beast

⁹ _e If anyone has an ear, let him hear:

¹⁰ _f If anyone is to be taken captive,
to captivity he goes;
_g if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
with the sword must he be slain.
_h Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

The Second Beast

¹¹ Then _i I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

1. Cross References
   Revelation 2:7
   He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
   
2. Cross References
   Isaiah 33:1
   Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
   Jeremiah 15:2
   And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.
   Jeremiah 43:11
   He shall come and strike the land of Egypt, giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 9:6
   Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
   
4. Cross References
   Revelation 14:12
   Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
   
5. Cross References
   Revelation 13:1
   And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
   Revelation 13:14
   And by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
   Revelation 16:13
   And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.