Daniel 7:2

Daniel 7:2

Vision of the Four Beasts

1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, ^aDaniel had a dream and ^bvisions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, telling² the main facts.

2 Daniel spoke, saying, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea.

3 And four great beasts ^acame up from the sea, each different from the other.

4 The first was ^alike a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a ^bman’s heart was given to it.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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the four winds—answering to the "four beasts"; their several conflicts in the four quarters or directions of the world.

strove—burst forth (from the abyss) [MAURER].

sea—The world powers rise out of the agitations of the political sea (Jeremiah 46:7-8; Luke 21:25; compare Revelation 13:1; Revelation 17:15; Revelation 21:1); the kingdom of God and the Son of man from the clouds of heaven (Daniel 7:13; compare John 8:23). TREGELLES takes "the great sea" to mean, as always elsewhere in Scripture (Joshua 1:4; Joshua 9:1), the Mediterranean, the center territorially of the four kingdoms of the vision, which all border on it and have Jerusalem subject to them. Babylon did not border on the Mediterranean, nor rule Jerusalem, till Nebuchadnezzar's time, when both things took place simultaneously. Persia encircled more of this sea, namely, from the Hellespont to Cyrene. Greece did not become a monarchy before Alexander's time, but then, succeeding to Persia, it became mistress of Jerusalem. It surrounded still more of the Mediterranean, adding the coasts of Greece to the part held by Persia. Rome, under Augustus, realized three things at once—it became a monarchy; it became mistress of the last of the four parts of Alexander's empire (symbolized by the four heads of the third beast), and of Jerusalem; it surrounded all the Mediterranean.

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