Daniel 7:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

Daniel 7:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 13:1
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Daniel 7:17
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Daniel 2:32-33
This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, …
Daniel 7:4-8
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. …
Psalms 76:4
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

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. 3)

3. beasts--not living animals, as the cherubic four in Re 4:7 (for the original is a different word from “beasts,” and ought to be there translated, living animals). The cherubic living animals represent redeemed man, combining in himself the highest forms of animal life. But the “beasts” here represent the world powers, in their beast-like, grovelling character. It is on the fundamental harmony b…