Daniel 7:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Daniel 7:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 13:11
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Daniel 2:37-40
Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. …
John 18:36
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Daniel 7:3-4
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. …
Daniel 8:19-22
And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-28)

Here we have, I. The deep impressions which these visions made upon the prophet. God in them put honour upon him, and gave him satisfaction, yet not without a great allay of pain and perplexity (Dan. 7:15): I Daniel was grieved in my spirit, in the midst of my body. The word here used for the body properly signifies a sheath or scabbard, for the body is no more to the soul; that is the weapon; it…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. kings--that is, kingdoms. Compare Da 7:23, “fourth kingdom”; Da 2:38; 8:20-22. Each of the four kings represents a dynasty. Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, Antiochus, and Antichrist, though individually referred to, are representatives of characteristic tendencies.