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Revelation 2:27

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2:27he87 will rule88 them with an iron rod89

and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,90

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Footnotes

  1. 87 Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  2. 88 Grk “will shepherd.”
  3. 89 Or “scepter.” The Greek term ῥάβδος (rhabdos) can mean either “rod” or “scepter.”
  4. 90 A quotation from Ps 2:9 (with the line introducing the quotation containing a partial allusion to Ps 2:8). See also Rev 12:5, 19:15.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and he will rule them with an iron scepter;

he will shatter them like pottery—

NLTNew Living Translation

They will rule the nations with an iron rod

and smash them like clay pots.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

and “he will shepherd them with an iron rod; he will break them in pieces like jars made of clay,”

KJV 1900King James Version

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.