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Daniel 7:3
3Then four huge beasts came up out of the water, each different from the others.
Daniel 7:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
- New International Version (NIV)Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.
Context of Daniel 7:3
1Earlier, during the first year of King Belshazzar’s reign in Babylon, Daniel had a dream and saw visions as he lay in his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is what he saw. 2In my vision that night, I, Daniel, saw a great storm churning the surface of a great sea, with strong winds blowing from every direction. Then four huge beasts came up out of the water, each different from the others. 4The first beast was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off, and it was left standing with its two hind feet on the ground, like a human being. And it was given a human mind. 5Then I saw a second beast, and it looked like a bear. It was rearing up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And I heard a voice saying to it, “Get up! Devour the flesh of many people!”
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וְאַרְבַּ֤ע חֵיוָן֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן סָלְקָ֖ן מִן־יַמָּ֑א שָׁנְיָ֖ן דָּ֥א מִן־דָּֽא׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Daniel 7:3
- Daniel 7:17“These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth.
- Daniel 2:32The head of the statue was made of fine gold. Its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,
- Zechariah 6:1Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from between two bronze mountains.
- Daniel 7:4The first beast was like a lion with eagles’ wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off, and it was left standing with its two hind feet on the ground, like a human being. And it was given a human mind.
- Psalms 76:4You are glorious and more majestic than the everlasting mountains.
- Ezekiel 19:3She raised one of her cubs to become a strong young lion. He learned to hunt and devour prey, and he became a man-eater.
- Revelation 13:1Then I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns. And written on each head were names that blasphemed God.
Commentaries on Daniel 7:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Four great beasts came up from the sea - The term sea, in Hebrew ים yam, from המה hamah, to be tumultuous, agitated, etc., seems to be used here to point out the then known terraqueous globe, because of its generally agitated state; and the four winds striving, point out those predatory wars that prevailed almost universally among men, from the days of Nimrod, the founder of the Assyrian or Babylonish monarchy, down to that time, and in the end gave birth…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3And four great beasts came up from the sea - Not at once, but in succession. See the following verses. Their particular form is described in the subsequent verses. The design of mentioning them here, as coming up from, the sea, seems to have been to show that this succession of kingdoms sprang from the agitations and commotions among the nations represented by the heaving ocean. It is not uncommon for the prophets to make use of animals to represent or…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-7The kingdoms of the world are shown as four large beasts (Daniel 7:17; compare Revelation 13:1–2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. beasts--not living animals, as the cherubic four in Re 4:7 (for the original is a different word from "beasts," and ought to be there translated, living animals). The cherubic living animals represent redeemed man, combining in himself the highest forms of animal life. But the "beasts" here represent the world powers, in their beast-like, grovelling character. It is on the fundamental harmony between nature and spirit, between the three kingdoms of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Daniel 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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