In answer to the OP...Tyndale's translation is more accurate "there were tyrants in the land". These are the mighty men of renown that corrupted the ways of God. Tyndale equated them to the Pope and Bishop Cardinals, and Priests of his day. Today they are the likes of the Pope, Cardinal Dolman, Joel Osteen, John McCarther, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, Joseph Prince, Paul Washer, Benny Henn, Ken Copeland, and a plethora of others to long to list that rule over organized Christianly. These mighty men of renown are giants in the earth subverting whole households dispensing the mark of the beast 24/7 upon the multitudes while merchandizing them at the same time..... They through Zondervan, and Rupert Murdoch, own the TV stations, book stores, radio waves, and seminary cemeteries such that the true gospel can not be exchanged (buy or sell) within Mystery Babylon the outer court