Daniel 7:3

Four large animals, each one different from the other, came up out of the sea.

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And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

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2Daniel explained, “In my vision at night I saw that the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

4The first was like a lion but had eagle's wings. As I was looking, its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground and made to stand on two feet, like a man. The mind of a man was given to it.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 19:3She is the one who raised up one of her cubs to become a young lion, a lion who learned to tear apart his victims, and then he devoured men. 1

Daniel 2:37You, king, are king of the kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the honor.

Daniel 7:17'These large animals, four in number, are four kings that will arise from the earth.

Revelation 13:1Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten crowns, and on each of its heads was a blasphemous name.

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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