Daniel 8:1

In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first.

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In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.

In Context

2And I saw in the vision; and when I saw it, I was in the strong town Shushan, which is in the country of Elam; and in the vision I was by the water-door of the Ulai.

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Cross References

Daniel 7:15As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me.

Daniel 8:15And it came about that when I, Daniel, had seen this vision, I had a desire for the sense of it to be unfolded; and I saw one before me in the form of a man.

Daniel 10:2In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.

Daniel 11:4And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 8:1

The visions and prophecies of this chapter look only and entirely at the events that were then shortly to come to pass in the monarchies of Persia and Greece, and seem not to have any further reference at all. Nothing is here said of the Chaldean monarchy, for that was now just at its period; and therefore this chapter is written not in Chaldee, as the six foregoing chapters were, for the benefit of the Chaldeans, but in Hebrew, and so are the rest of the chapters to the end of the book, for the service of the… Read the whole commentary →

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