Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him; All nations shall serve Him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.
- KJV Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
- BSB May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.
- NASB And may all kings bow down before him, All nations serve him.
- NLT All kings will bow before him, and all nations will serve him.
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All kings will fall down before him and all nations will serve him.
Overview
The vision broadens to universal homage: every ruler and nation submitting to this king. Such comprehensive allegiance belongs ultimately to God's anointed. It is fulfilled in Christ, before whom all nations are called to bow and whom the redeemed of every people will serve (Revelation 7:9-10).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 86:9All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
- Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
- Isa 49:22–23Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
- Rev 17:14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
- Rev 20:1–6I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
- Rev 21:26and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.
- Ps 138:4–5All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.
- Isa 54:5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
- Rev 21:24The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
- Isa 11:9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
- Ps 2:10–12Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
- Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
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