Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Cross-reference
In Revelation 17:13, the ten kings give their power to the beast, showing the alliance behind the kings' immorality with the prostitute.
In Revelation 17:17, God puts it into the kings' hearts to hand power to the beast, revealing divine sovereignty over their actions.
Revelation 17:16 shows the beast and horns destroying the prostitute, directly concluding the narrative of her seductive influence in v.2.
In Revelation 14:8, Babylon is said to have made nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, identifying the prostitute as Babylon.
In Revelation 18:3, all nations and kings are described as having drunk her wine and committed immorality, echoing the same judgment.
In Revelation 18:9, the kings who committed immorality with her mourn Babylon's fall, showing their eventual lament.
Revelation 18:6 demands repaying Babylon with the same cup she mixed, linking to the wine of immorality here and the principle of retribution.
Revelation 19:2 explicitly states God judged the prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, affirming the condemnation here.
Revelation 9:21 lists sexual immorality as a sin people refuse to repent of, showing the persistence of the very sin the prostitute promotes.
In Jeremiah 51:7, Babylon makes the nations drunk, providing the OT prophetic background for the prostitute's cup of immorality.
Isaiah 23:17 says Tyre 'shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms'—almost identical language to Babylon's harlotry here.
Habakkuk 2:15 supplies the OT source for making neighbors drunk to exploit them, directly echoed in Babylon's wine of immorality.