I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no (e) beasts might stand before him, neither [was there any] that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
(e) That is, no kings or nations.
Verse Daniel 8:4. _I SAW THE RAM PUSHING WESTWARD_] The Persians, who are signified by the _ram_, as well as their _founder Cyrus_, pushed their conquests _west, north_ and _south_. The principal thea...
I SAW THE RAM PUSHING WESTWARD, AND NORTHWARD, AND SOUTHWARD - Denoting the conquests of the united kingdom. The east is not mentioned, for none of the conquests of the Medo-Persian empire extended in...
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...
PUSHING. butting: always hostile. WESTWARD. to the west. Not the same word as in Daniel 8:5. BECAME GREAT. acted proudly....
_pushing_ i.e. _butting:_cf. Exodus 21:28 (-gore"); and applied figuratively to peoples, Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalms 44:5 (-push down," properly -butt"). _stand before him_ so...
PUSHING WESTWARD, AND NORTHWARD, AND SOUTHWARD— Westward, that is, subduing Babylonia, Syria, and Asia Minor, under the reign of Cyrus, and extending to part of Greece under that of his successors, Da...
CHAPTER EIGHT II. LOCKING HORNSDaniel 8:1-27 a. THE GOAT AND THE RAM TEXT: Daniel 8:1-8 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me, Daniel, after...
I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and...
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...
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...
I SAW THE RAM PUSHING. — The ram pushes in three different directions. This corresponds to the three ribs in the mouth of the bear. The animal does not push towards the east, as it is presumed that he...
רָאִ֣יתִי אֶת ־הָ אַ֡יִל מְנַגֵּחַ֩ יָ֨מָּה ו
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 SANCTUARY DISHONORED Daniel 8:1-14 Shushan was the lily palace. There, by the river Ulai, the prophet beheld in vision the attack which would subsequently be made on the Medo-Persian kingdom by...
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...
_South. Codomannus reigned in peace for two years, when he was invaded. But his predecessors had made war chiefly in Greece, Scythia, and Egypt. The stupendous preparations of Xerxes against Greece on...
The third year of the reign of Belshazzar must have been before what is related of his death in the fifth Chapter; only this vision of Daniel is not placed in that order. The Prophet had his mind so i...
The Prophet, now shortly sketches the great success which should attend this double kingdom. He says, _The ram struck all the nations towards the west, and north, and south. _The Persian and Median te...
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...
I SAW THE RAM PUSHING WESTWARD, AND NORTHWARD, AND SOUTHWARD,.... That is, with his horns, as rams do; these kingdoms using all their power and strength, wealth and riches, in fighting with and subdui...
I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither [was there any] that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, an...
_I saw the ram pushing westward_, &c. Under Cyrus himself the Persians pushed their conquests _westward_, as far as the Ægean sea, subduing Babylonia, Syria, and Asia Minor; and extended them to part...
THE VISION ITSELF...
I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward, to subdue all the countries located in these directions, SO THAT NO BEASTS MIGHT STAND BEFORE HIM, NEITHER WAS THERE ANY THAT COULD DELIVER...
1-14 God gives Daniel a foresight of the destruction of other kingdoms, which in their day were as powerful as that of Babylon. Could we foresee the changes that shall be when we are gone, we should...
WESTWARD, i.e. towards Babylon, Syria, Cappadocia. Asia the Less, and Greece, all westward from Media and Persia; for the Persians under Darius and Xerxes made war against Greece. NORTHWARD, i.e. agai...
Daniel 8:4 saw H7200 (H8804) ram H352 pushing H5055 (H8764) westward H3220 northward H6828 southward H5045 animal...
‘I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, and no beasts could stand before him, nor was there any who could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will and magnified...
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...
_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 11:16; Daniel 11:2; Daniel 11:3; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 5:19;...
West — ward — Toward Babylon, Syria, Cappadocia, Asia the less, and Greece, all westward from Media and Persia. North — ward — Against the Armenians, Iberians, Lydians, Colchi Caspians. South — ward —...