Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Daniel 7:3
That is, four great monarchies, great in comparison of particular kingdoms that were little to them; beasts for their idolatry, and tyrannical oppressions and depredations.
That is, four great monarchies, great in comparison of particular kingdoms that were little to them; beasts for their idolatry, and tyrannical oppressions and depredations.
Verse Daniel 7:3. _FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA_] The term _sea_, in Hebrew ים _yam_, from המה _hamah, to be tumultuous, agitated_, c., seems to be used here to point out the then known _te...
AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA - Not at once, but in succession. See the following verses. Their particular form is described in the subsequent verses. The design of mentioning them here,...
II. THE GREAT PROPHECIES OF DANIEL CHAPTER 7 The night visions of Daniel _ 1. The night vision of the three beasts (Daniel 7:1)_ 2. The night vision of the fourth beast (Daniel 7:7) 3. The judgmen...
DANIEL 7. THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS. From this point onwards the Book becomes purely apocalyptic. The vision of the four beasts is parallel to the vision of the image in Daniel 2. The beasts rise...
FOUR GREAT BEASTS. These are not the four dominions of Daniel 2. They stand up one after the other, and each stands, successively, in the place of the other. These are to arise in "the days of" those...
_came up from the sea_ Cf. Revelation 13:1; 2Es 11:1; 2Es 13:3 (R.V.)....
BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS—STROVE, &C.— What was revealed to Nebuchadnezzar concerning the four great empires of the world was again revealed to Daniel, with some additions, about forty-eight years after....
Part ThreeDaniel's ForeknowledgeChapter s 7-12 CHAPTER SEVEN I. BEASTS AND THE BEAUTYDaniel 7:1-28 a. MALEVOLENT BEAST TEXT: Daniel 7:1-8 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel h...
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. BEASTS - not living animals, as the cherubic four in Revelation 4:7 (for the original [ zooa (G2226)] is a different word from be...
THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS In the first year of Belshazzar Daniel sees in a dream four beasts rising out of the sea (Daniel 7:1). The first is like a lion, with eagle's wings (Daniel 7:4), the seco...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 7 V1 It was the first year that king Belshazzar ruled Babylon. Daniel had a dream. He saw pictures in his head as he lay on his bed. An...
FOUR GREAT BEASTS. — The monstrous forms of the beasts are implied, rather than the hugeness of their size. Other instances of beasts being taken as emblems of kingdoms may be found in Isaiah 27:1; Ez...
וְ אַרְבַּ֤ע חֵיוָן֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן סָלְקָ֖ן מִן...
VISION OF THE FOUR WILD BEASTS WE now enter upon the second division of the Book of Daniel-the apocalyptic. It is unquestionably inferior to the first part in grandeur and importance as a whole, but i...
GOD'S EVERLASTING DOMINION Daniel 7:1-14 This chapter enumerates the succession of world-empires and rulers which bridge the gulf of centuries from the Captivity to the Second Advent. The lion repres...
We come now to the second half of the Book, which consists of visions, with their interpretations, granted to Daniel through three reigns. During the reign of Belshazzar two visions were granted to hi...
_Four great beasts; viz. the Chaldeans, Persian, Grecian, and Roman empires. But some rather choose to understand the fourth beast of the successors of Alexander the great, more especially of them tha...
There can be no doubt, but that what is here described under the figure and similitude of beasts, relates to kingdoms of the earth. And explaining these prophecies by the events which have followed, i...
After Daniel had beheld these great commotions which were shaking the earth in different parts, another vision was offered to him. What has already been said concerning the troubled sea and the confli...
We come now to the communications made to Daniel himself, which contain not merely general principles, but details relative to God's people, and the Gentiles who oppressed them -historical details, th...
AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA,.... Which are afterwards interpreted of four kings or kingdoms, Daniel 7:17, which rose up in the world, not at once, but successively, and out of the sea o...
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. Ver. 3. _And four great beasts._] _Regnorum feritas bestiarum nomine demonstratur,_ saith Jerome. The fierceness of the four king...
_Behold, the four winds strove upon the great sea_ This denotes those commotions in the world, and that troublesome state of affairs, out of which empires and kingdoms commonly take their rise. _And f...
THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS...
And four great beasts, monstrous beings, CAME UP FROM THE SEA, world-powers rising out of the agitation of the political sea of the heathen world, DIVERSE ONE FROM ANOTHER, one after the other issuing...
1-8 This vision contains the same prophetic representations with Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The great sea agitated by the winds, represented the earth and the dwellers on it troubled by ambitious prince...
Daniel 7:3 four H703 great H7260 beasts H2423 up H5559 (H8751) from H4481 sea H3221 each H1668 different...
Daniel 7:1 The principles which underlie this prophecy are at once profoundly suggestive and exceedingly important. I. Foremost among them we find the terribly significant truth that earthly power i...
CONTENTS: The beast vision of Daniel, forecasting the four world empires and the final heading up under anti-Christ. Vision of Christ coming in glory. Interpretation of the beast vision. CHARACTERS:...
Daniel 7:1. _In the first year of Belshazzar._ The book of Daniel is divided into two parts; the first six Chapter s being historic, and the latter prophetic. This dream of Daniel's has a connection w...
_I saw in my vision by night._ MODES OF COMMUNICATION WITH GOD Since the days of the apostles, the intercourse between Heaven and earth has been maintained through the ordinary channels. God speaks t...
DANIEL 7:1 The Visions of Daniel. These chapters describe Daniel’s apocalyptic visions, which reassure God’s people that, in spite of exile and persecution, God is still in control of history and will...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 7:3 This SEA produced FOUR startling creatures, one after the other, each more frightening than the preceding one. These creatures are identified in v....
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXII.—THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS (Chap. Daniel 7:1) We now come to the second and principal part of the Book of Daniel, the prophetical portion, the narratives it contains being...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 7:1 THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS. This chapter begins the second section of the book. All before this has been narrative; visions are introduced into the narrative, but they were...
Now at this point we come to, more or less, the end of the historic part of the book of Daniel. And beginning with chapter 7, we are now gonna go back and deal with visions that Daniel had during prev...
Daniel 2:32; Daniel 2:33; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 7:17; Daniel 7:4;...
Four great beasts — That is, four great monarchies, great, in comparison of particular kingdoms; beasts for their tyrannical oppressions....