That ye may eat the flesh of kings,.... Of the earth, and of the whole world, who will fall in the battle at Armageddon; see Re 16:14 and design either those antichristian kings and states, which have drunk of the wine of Rome's fornication, and will bewail the downfall of Babylon, Re 18:3 or those Pagan kings which will be drawn in by the pope and Turk, to aid and assist in this war, or both, when, upon the defeat of them, the Christian princes will seize upon, possess, and enjoy their kingdoms and dominions, which is meant by eating their flesh;See Gill on "Re 17:16".
And the flesh of captains; of their generals, and officers under them:and the flesh of mighty men; the common soldiers, who are so called, Jer 46:5 who will be rifled and plundered:and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them; whose rich trappings and clothes will be taken away from them:and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great; that is, the substance of all the inhabitants of the antichristian empire, both eastern and western, of whatsoever rank, state, and condition they be, Re 13:16.