Daniel 7:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 7:1
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

The date of this chapter places it before Dan. 5:1-31, which was in the last year of Belshazzar, and Dan. 6:1-28, which was in the first of Darius; for Daniel had those visions in the first year of Belshazzar, when the captivity of the Jews in Babylon was drawing near a period. Belshazzar’s name here is, in the original, spelt differently from what it used to be; before it was Bel-she-azar—Bel is…

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

(vv. 2)

2. the four winds--answering to the “four beasts”; their several conflicts in the four quarters or directions of the world. strove--burst forth (from the abyss) [Maurer]. sea--The world powers rise out of the agitations of the political sea (Jr 46:7, 8; Lu 21:25; compare Re 13:1; 17:15; 21:1); the kingdom of God and the Son of man from the clouds of heaven (Da 7:13; compare Joh 8:23). Tregelles ta…