Daniel 7:9

I was beholding until 1 kisot (thrones) were placed, 1 and the Atik Yomin (Ancient of Days), + 7:9 i.e., Hashem did sit, 1 whose raiment was like white snow, 1 and the hair of His rosh like pure wool; 1 His kes (throne) was like the fiery flames, 1 and its wheels like burning eish. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

In Context

8I was contemplating the karnayim (horns), and, hinei, there came up among them another keren (horn), a little one, before whom there were three of the first karnayim plucked up by the roots; and, hinei, in this keren were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

10A river of eish was flowing 1 and came forth from before Him; 1 thousand thousands ministered unto Him, 1 and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him; 1 the court sat, 1 and the sfarim (books) were opened.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:19And he said, Shema Devar Hashem: I saw Hashem sitting on his kisse, and all the Tzva HaShomayim standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.

Psalms 90:2Before the harim were brought forth, 1 or ever Thou hadst formed eretz and the tevel (inhabited world), 1 even from olam ad olam, 1 Thou art El (G-d). 1

Psalms 102:24He bowed down my ko'ach in the derech; 1 He cut short my yamim. 1

Isaiah 6:1In the year that the Melech Uziyah died, I saw Adonoi sitting upon a kisse, high and lifted up, and His robe filled the Heikhal.

Jeremiah 49:38And I will set My Kisse in Eilam, and will destroy from there melech and the sarim, saith Hashem.

Ezekiel 1:16The appearance of the Ofanim and their making was like unto the color of tarshish; and they four had one demut; and their appearance and their making was as it were an Ofan within an Ofan.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 7:2-9

The Vision of the Four Beasts. ( b. c. 555.) 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was… Read the whole commentary →

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