Who are the seven kings mentioned in the book of Revelation? From Revelation 17 (KJ21): > 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. > > 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, yet is one of the seven and goeth into perdition. Who are these seven kings, that precede Satan?

Here's a decent analysis of the passage.

> It is these seven kings that we want to deal with in this paper. Basically, there are three different interpretations that could be considered about who these seven kings are:
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> **Seven Individual Kings** : This interpretation has a couple variations. Some try to identify seven individual emperors (a typical preterist view), and others seven individual popes.
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> **Seven Kingdoms** : This interpretation typically identifies the first five kings either as being Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Pagan Rome, and Papal Rome; or as being Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece.
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> **Seven Forms of Roman Government** : This interpretation typically identifies the first five kings as being five of the following forms of government: a) kings, b) consuls, c) dictators, d) decemvirate, e) military tribunes with consular power, and f) triumvira