Daniel 8:21
The he-goat is the King of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
20The ram which you saw that had the horns is the king of the Medes and Persians.
Cross References
Daniel 7:6After this one I looked, and behold another wild beast as a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon it: and the wild beast had four heads, and power was given to it.
Daniel 10:20And he said, Know you, therefore I am come to you? and now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians: and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came.
Zechariah 9:13For I have bent you, O Juda, for myself as a bow, I have filled + 9:13 Or, it with Ephraim. Ephraim; and I will raise up your children, O Sion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle you as the sword of a warrior.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 8:16-27
The Vision of the Ram and Goat. ( b. c. 553.) 15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. 17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.… Read the whole commentary →