Daniel 8:1

In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, I, Daniel, had a vision appear to me (after the one that appeared to me at first).

Unlocked Literal Bible

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

2I saw in the vision, as I was looking, that I was in the fortress of Susa in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal.

Read all of Daniel 8

Cross References

Daniel 7:15As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved inside of me, and the visions I saw in my mind troubled me.

Daniel 8:15When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I tried to understand it. Then there stood before me one who looked like a man.

Daniel 10:2In those days I, Daniel, was in mourning for three weeks.

Daniel 11:4When he has risen up, his kingdom will be broken and divided to the four winds of heaven, but not to his own descendants, and not with his power when he had been ruling. For his kingdom will be uprooted for others besides his descendants.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Daniel 8:1