Revelation 18:24
Good News Translation
Babylon was punished because the blood of prophets and of God's people was found in the city; yes, the blood of all those who have been killed on earth.

New Revised Standard Version
And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”

Contemporary English Version
On the streets of Babylon is found the blood of God's people and of his prophets, and everyone else."

New American Bible
In her was found the blood of prophets and holy ones and all who have been slain on the earth.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.

in her.

Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the abyss shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them.

Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her, with great admiration.

Revelation 19:2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

Jeremiah 2:34 And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.

Ezekiel 22:9,12,27 Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee. . . .

Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and lo, that horn made war against the saints, and prevailed over them,

Matthew 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Luke 11:47-51 Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. . . .

Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

were.

Jeremiah 51:49 And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.

Context
The Doom of Babylon
23And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments. 24And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:49
And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.

Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.

Matthew 23:35
That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

Revelation 16:6
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her, with great admiration.

Revelation 18:23
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