5And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
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And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. …
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
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…
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