Daniel 8:1

During the third year that Belshazzar was the King of Babylonia, I had another vision.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

2In that vision I was in Susa, the capital city of Elam Province. I was standing alongside the Ulai Canal.

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Cross References

Daniel 7:15As for me, Daniel, I was very terrified by what I had seen in that vision, and I did not know what to think about it.

Daniel 8:15While I, Daniel, was trying to understand what the vision meant, suddenly an angel who resembled a man stood/appeared in front of me.

Daniel 10:2At that time I had been sad for three weeks about what had happened to Jerusalem.

Daniel 11:4But when he has become very powerful, he will die. Then his kingdom will be divided into four parts. Kings who are not his descendants will rule, but they will not be as powerful as he was.

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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