Scofield's Bible Commentary
Daniel 8:22
four kingdoms
The four empires into which Alexander's empire was divided about B.C. 300; Greece, Asia Minor, including Syria, Egypt, the East.
four kingdoms
The four empires into which Alexander's empire was divided about B.C. 300; Greece, Asia Minor, including Syria, Egypt, the East.
Verse Daniel 8:22. _BUT NOT IN HIS POWER._] The _four kingdoms_ which shall arise out of the Macedonian empire shall not be of Alexander's power or _family_, nor have his strength and dignity....
NOW THAT BEING BROKEN - By the death of Alexander. WHEREAS FOUR STOOD UP FOR IT - Stood up in its place. FOUR KINGDOMS SHALL STAND UP - Ultimately. It is not necessary to suppose that this would be i...
CHAPTER 8 THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT _ 1. The vision (Daniel 8:1)_ 2. The interpretation of the vision (Daniel 8:15) Daniel 8:1. Beginning with this chapter to the end of the book prophecy will lead us...
DANIEL 8. THE VISION OF THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT. This chapter gives an account of another vision which came to Daniel in Shushan. Near the river Ulai a ram with two horns is seen pushing invincibly we...
FOR IT. in the place thereof. FOUR KINGDOMS. These are said to have been: (1) Ptolemy's (Egypt, Palestine, and some parts of Asia Minor); (2) Cassander's (Macedonia and Greece); (3) Lysimachus's (Bit...
Daniel seeks to know the meaning of the vision, which is imparted to him, as in Daniel 7:16 ff., by an angel. 15 THAT I _sought_ TO UNDERSTAND (it), AND, _behold_, &c. cf. Daniel 7:19. _there_ WAS ST...
The explanation of the vision....
AND AS FOR THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN, IN THE PLACE WHEREOF _four stood up_(R.V.), _four kingdoms shall stand up_, &c. see on Daniel 8:8. _stand up_ i.e. _arise_. Late Hebrew uses _-âmad_, -to stand," or...
FOUR KINGDOMS SHALL STAND UP, &C.— Does not this imply that the remaining kingdom, the kingdom of the _little horn,_ should _not be of the nation?_ Newton, p. 33. Houbigant reads, _Four kingdoms shall...
c. GRIEVOUS TIMES AND RETRIBUTION TEXT: Daniel 8:18-27 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright. 19 And he...
Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. FOUR KINGDOMS SHALL STAND UP OUT OF THE NATION, BUT NOT IN HIS POWER - no...
THE VISION OF THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT In the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa (Daniel 8:1). He sees a two-homed ram which behaves ag...
FOUR KINGDOMS] those of Alexander's four generals—Macedonia, Thrace, Egypt, and Syria: see Intro. IN HIS POWER] RV 'with his power.' These kingdoms were severally inferior to Alexander's empire....
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 8 V1 In the third year that King Belshazzar ruled Babylon, I, Daniel, had another dream. V2 In my dream, I saw myself in the castle at...
(20-22) See Notes on Daniel 8:3....
NOT IN HIS POWER — _i.e.,_ not like the first king....
וְ הַ֨ נִּשְׁבֶּ֔רֶת וַ תַּֽעֲמֹ֥דְנָה אַרְבַּ֖ע...
THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT This vision is dated as having occurred in the third year of Belshazzar; but it is not easy to see the significance of the date, since it is almost exclusively occupied with t...
GOD'S DELIVERANCE IS SURE Daniel 8:15-27 It does not fall within our province to go into the various fulfillments which have been assigned to the predictions of this chapter-one to the time of the Ma...
Two years later, in the third year of king Belshazzar's reign, another vision came to Daniel. It was of a ram with two horns pushing westward, northward, and southward. As Daniel watched, a he goat at...
Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up (f) out of the nation, but not (g) in his power. (f) That is, out of Greece. (g) They will not have similar power as...
_Nation, yet not his children. (ver. 8.)_...
Who this fierce king points at, or what awful indignation is to take place at the time, when the latter kingdom shall come, and the transgressions are come to the full; I presume not to say. But one s...
_The great horn, _says he, _which was between his eyes was the first king, and when it was broken, four others sprang up. _Alexander, as we have mentioned, perished in the flower of his age, and was s...
Chapter 8 gives details of that which takes place from another side of Judea, with reference to the Jews. The two empires of Persia and Greece, or of the East, which succeeded that of Babylon under wh...
NOW THAT BEING BROKEN,.... That is, the great horn Alexander, the first king of the Grecian monarchy; whose death, either by drunkenness, or by poison, is here expressed by being "broken". The sense i...
Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. Ver. 22. _Now that being broken._] See Daniel 8:8 ....
_The ram, &c., having two horns, are the kings_, or _kingdoms_ rather, _of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king_, or _kingdom, of Grecia. And the great horn, &c., is the first king_ Namely...
Now, that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, or, "concerning the horn, that it was broken, and that four then took its place," this is the meaning: FOUR KINGDOMS SHALL STAND UP OUT OF THE NAT...
THE EXPLANATION OF THE VISION...
15-27 The eternal Son of God stood before the prophet in the appearance of a man, and directed the angel Gabriel to explain the vision. Daniel's fainting and astonishment at the prospect of evils he...
BEING BROKEN, i.e. by death, which breaks the horn of all pride and earthly glory. FOUR STOOD UP FOR IT, i.e. four kingdoms of the nations of the Greeks. NOT IN HIS POWER; that is, not in his majesty...
Daniel 8:22 broken H7665 (H8737) four H702 up H5975 (H8799) four H702 kingdoms H4438 arise H5975 ...
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE VISION. ‘The ram which you saw, which had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn that is betw...
CONTENTS: The ram and rough goat vision, and its interpretation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Gabriel, Daniel, Belshazzar, anti-Christ. CONCLUSION: Out from the kingdoms of the last days a king of fierc...
Daniel 8:2. _At Shushan in the palace._ Some think that Daniel was now ambassador at the Persian court. The _Ulai_ or Eulæus, is a great and navigable river which watered Ecbatana, capital of Media, a...
_Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns._ THE WORLD-POWERS AND ISRAEL A glance at the particulars in this vision is enough to satisfy...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:1 In this next vision, Daniel sees what is to come of the Medo-Persian Empire, Alexander the Great’s empire, and the Hellenistic empires that succeed it. The upheavals to come...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:15 The angel Gabriel explains to Daniel that the vision concerns the future of the region, which God rules for his purposes. The vision is given to prepare God’s people for the...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 8:20 Unlike the vision of ch. Daniel 7:1, the vision of Daniel 8:3 is precisely interpreted by the angel.
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXVIII.—ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, OR THE SYRIAN LITTLE HORN (Chap. Daniel 8:1) This chapter presents to us another vision of Daniel vouchsafed to him in the reign of Belshazzar, but two...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 8:1 THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT This chapter marks the change from Aramaic to_ _Hebrew. The character of the chapter is like that which immediately precedes it. It consists, like it, o...
Now two years later: In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even as unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first (Daniel 8:1). A similar type...
Daniel 11:4; Daniel 8:3...