Daniel 7:1
Previously, during the first year that Belshazzar was the king of Babylonia, I had a dream and a vision one night as I lay on my bed. The next morning I wrote down what I had dreamed. This is what I wrote:
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Genesis 46:2That night, God called to Jacob in a vision, saying, “Jacob! Jacob!” He replied, “I am here!”
Job 4:13He spoke to me at night when I was having a bad dream that disturbed/frightened me while I was fast asleep.
Isaiah 8:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Make a large signboard. And write clearly on it, ‘Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz’ which means ‘quickly ◄plunder/take by force► and steal everything’.”
Jeremiah 23:28Allow those false prophets to tell people their dreams, but those who have messages that really come from me should proclaim those messages faithfully. I, Yahweh, say that like straw and grain are certainly very different, my messages and the messages from those false prophets are certainly very different.
Jeremiah 36:4So I summoned Baruch, the son of Neraiah. Then, as I dictated to him all the messages that Yahweh had spoken to me, he wrote them on a scroll.
Daniel 1:17And God gave to us four young men wisdom and the ability to study many things that Babylonians had written and studied. And he also gave to me the ability to understand the meaning of visions and dreams.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 7:1
The six former chapters of this book were historical; we now enter with fear and trembling upon the six latter, which are prophetical, wherein are many things dark and hard to be understood, which we dare not positively determine the sense of, and yet many things plain and profitable, which I trust God will enable us to make a good use of. In this chapter we have, I. Daniel's vision of the four beasts, ver. 1-8 . II. His vision of God's throne of government and judgment, ver. 9-14 . III. The interpretation of… Read the whole commentary →