Dan 4:5-18, Dan 7-8, Mat 27:19 | TSK | STEP | a dream. and the thoughts.

saw. Chal. was seeing. a tree.This represented his exceedingly prosperous condition, the height of his exaltation, the extent of his dominions and renown, the splendour of his kingdom, the multitude of his subjects who received protection from him, and the peace and plenty they enjoyed.

20-26; Ps 37:35,36; Isa 10:33,34; Jer 12:2; Eze 31:3-18

reached.

21,22; Ge 11:4; De 9:1; Mt 11:23

the beasts.

Jer 27:6,7; Eze 17:23; 31:6

shadow.

La 4:20

the fowls.

Mr 13:32; Lu 13:19

in the.

5,10; 7:1a watcher. Either a holy angel, or a divine person, called a watcher, as watching over the affairs of men.

17,23; Ps 103:20

an holy.

8:13; De 33:2; Ps 89:7; Zec 14:5; Mt 25:31; Mr 1:24; Lu 4:34

Jude 1:14; Re 14:10

aloud. Chal. with might.

3:4; Re 10:3; 18:2

Hew.

23; 5:20; Mt 3:10; 7:19; Lu 3:9; 13:7-9

let.

12; Jer 51:6,9; Eze 31:12,13

leave.

25-27; Job 14:7-9; Eze 29:14,15

Let his.Here a transition is made from the tree to Nebuchadnezzar, whom it represented; the tree being lost sight of, a person came in its stead. This person having lost the heart, or disposition of a man, and conceiving himself a beast, should act as such, and herd among them.

be changed.

32,33; Isa 6:10; Heb 1:11; Mr 5:4,5; Lu 8:27-29

seven times.That is, seven years, a time in the prophetic language denoting a year.

23,25,31; 7:25; 11:13; 12:7; Re 12:14

by the.

13,14; 1Ki 22:19,20; 1Ti 5:21

the holy.

8,9,13; Isa 6:3,8; Re 4:8

that the living.

Ps 9:16; 83:17,18; Eze 25:17

the most High.

25,32-35; 2:21; 5:18-21; Jer 27:5-7

giveth.

Ps 75:6,7

the basest.

25; 11:21; Ex 9:16; 1Sa 2:8; 1Ki 21:25; 2Ki 21:6-18; 2Ch 28:22

Ps 12:8; 113:7,8; Eze 7:24; 1Co 1:28

forasmuch.

7; 2:7; 5:8,15; Ge 41:8,15; Isa 19:3; 47:12-14

but.

8,9; 2:26-28; 1Ki 14:2,3; Am 3:7

Daniel 7

1 Daniel's vision of the four beasts,

9 and of God's kingdom.

15 The interpretation thereof.

Cir. A.M. 3449. B.C. 555. Belshazzar.

5:1,22,30; 8:1; Jer 27:7

Daniel.

2:1,28,29; 4:5; Nu 12:6; Job 33:14-16; Jer 23:28; Joe 2:28; Am 3:7

Ac 2:17,18

had. Chal. saw. visions.

7,13,15; Ge 15:1; 46:2; Job 4:13; Eze 1:1; 2Co 12:1

he wrote.

Isa 8:1; 30:8; Hab 2:2; Ro 15:4; Re 1:19; 10:4

matters. or, words.

the four.

Re 7:1

the great.

Re 17:15

four.Four kingdoms, (ver. 17,) called beasts, from their tyranny and oppression, emerging from the wars and commotions of the world.

2:32,33,37-40; Zec 6:1-8

beasts.

4-8,17; Ps 76:4; Eze 19:3-8; Re 13:1

like.

De 28:49; 2Sa 1:23; Isa 5:28,29; Jer 4:7,13; 25:38; 48:40; La 4:19

Eze 17:3; Hab 1:6-8; Mt 24:28

the wings.

4:31-33; Jer 50:30-32

and it. or, wherewith it, etc. lifted.

4:30; 5:18-23; Isa 14:13-17; Jer 25:9-26; Hab 2:5-10

and a.

4:32,36; Job 25:6; Ps 9:20; Eze 28:2,9

another.

2:39; 8:3; 2Ki 2:24; Pr 17:12; Ho 13:8

itself on one side. or, one dominion.

5:28; 8:4; 11:2

three ribs.Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.

Arise.

Isa 13:17,18; 56:9; Jer 50:21-32; Eze 39:17-20

lo.

2:39; 8:5-7,20,21; 10:20; 11:3-20; Ho 13:7; Re 13:2

another.The Greek empire, founded by Alexander the Great.

four wings.

4; Eze 17:3

four heads.Divided into 4 parts by Alexander's generals.

8:8,22; 11:4-20

I saw.

2,13

a fourth.The Roman empire, which destroyed the Grecian, and became mistress of the world.

19,23; 2:40; 8:10; 2Sa 22:43

and it had ten.

24; 2:41,42; Re 12:3; 13:1; 17:7,12

another.

20-25; 8:9-12; Re 13:11-13

eyes like.

8:23-25; Re 9:7

a mouth.

25; 11:36; 1Sa 2:3; Ps 12:3; 2Th 2:4; 2Ti 3:2; 2Pe 2:18; Jude 1:16

Re 13:1,5,6

till.

2:34,35,44,45; 1Co 15:24,25; Re 19:18-21; 20:1-4

the Ancient.

13,22; Ps 90:2; 102:24,25; Isa 9:6; Mic 5:2; Hab 1:12

whose.

Ps 45:8; 104:2; Mt 17:2; Mr 9:3; Php 3:9; 1Ti 6:16; 1Jo 1:5; Re 1:14

his throne.

Ac 2:30,33; 2Th 1:7,8; 2Pe 3:7-10

and his wheels.

Ps 104:3,4; Eze 1:13-21; 10:2-7

fiery.

Ps 50:3; 97:2,3; Isa 30:27,33; 66:15,16; Na 1:5,6

thousand thousands.

De 33:2; 1Ki 22:19; Ps 68:17; Zec 14:5; Mt 25:31; Heb 12:22

Jude 1:14; Re 5:11

the judgment.

Ps 96:11-13; Mal 3:16-18; Re 20:11-15

the voice.

8,25; 2Pe 2:18; Jude 1:16; Re 13:5,6; 20:4,12

even.

26; 8:25; 11:45; 2Th 2:8; Re 18:8; 19:20; 20:10

the rest.

4-6; 8:7

their lives were prolonged. Chal. a prolonging in life wasgiven them.

one like.

Ps 8:4,5; Isa 9:6,7; Eze 1:26; Mt 13:41; 24:30; 25:31; 26:64

Mr 13:26; 14:61,62; Lu 21:27,36; Joh 3:13; 5:27; 12:34; Ac 7:56

Php 2:6-8; Heb 2:14; Re 1:7,13,18; 14:14

the Ancient.

9,22

and they.

Ps 47:5; 68:17,18; Jer 49:19; Eph 1:20,21; 1Ti 6:16; Heb 9:24

given.

27; Ps 2:6-8; 8:6; 110:1,2; Mt 11:27; 28:18; Lu 10:22; 19:11,12

Joh 3:35; 5:22-27; 1Co 15:27; Eph 1:20-22; Php 2:9-11; 1Pe 3:22

Re 3:21

that all.

3:4; Ps 72:17; Isa 60:12; Re 11:15; 17:14

an everlasting.

18,27; 2:35,44; 4:3; 6:26; Ps 45:6; 145:13; 146:10; Isa 9:7; Ob 1:21

Mic 4:7; Lu 1:33; Joh 12:34; 1Co 15:24-28; Heb 12:28

was grieved.

28; 8:27; Jer 15:17,18; 17:16; Hab 3:16; Lu 19:41-44; Ro 9:2,3

Re 10:9-11

body. Chal. sheath.

2Pe 1:14

the visions.

2:1,3; 4:5; Ge 40:7,8; 41:8

one.

10; 8:13-16; 10:5,6,11,12; 12:5,6; Zec 1:8-11; 2:3; 3:7; Re 5:5

Re 7:13,14

great.

3,4; 2:37-40; 8:19-22

out.

3; Ps 17:14; Joh 18:36; Re 13:1,11

the saints.

22,27; Ps 45:16; 149:5-9; Isa 60:12-14; 2Ti 2:11,12; Re 2:26,27

Re 3:21; 5:10; 20:4

most High. Chal. high ones, that is, things, or places.

Eph 1:3; 6:12

the fourth.

7; 2:40-43

the others. Chal. those.

the ten horns.The ten kingdoms into which the western Roman empire was divided; which were primarily, according to Machiavel and Bp. Lloyd, 1. The Huns in Hungary, A.D. 356. 2. The Ostrogoths in Moesia, 377. 3. The Visigoths in Pannonia, 378. 4. The Sueves and Alans in Gascoigne and Spain, 407. 5. The Vandals in Africa, 407. 6. The Franks in France, 407. 7. The Burgundians in Burgundy, 407. 8. The Heruli and Turingi in Italy, 476. 9. The Saxons and Angles in Britain, 476. 10. The Lombards, first upon the Danube, 526, and afterwards in Italy. Though the ten kingdoms differed from these in later periods, and were sometimes more or less, yet they were still known by that name.

8,11,23; 8:9-11

whose look.

11:36,37

8:12,24; 11:31; 12:7; Re 11:7-9; 12:3,4; 13:5-7,8-18; 17:6,14; 19:19

the Ancient.

9-11; 2Th 2:8; Re 11:11-18; 14:8-20; 19:11-21; 20:9-15

judgment

18; Isa 63:4; Mt 19:28; Lu 22:29,30; 1Co 6:2,3; Re 1:6; 3:21; 5:10

Re 20:4

the fourth.

7; 2:40; Lu 2:1

the ten.

20; Re 12:3; 13:1; 17:3,12,13,16-18

another.This evidently points out the papal supremacy, in every respect diverse from the former, which from small beginnings thrust itself up among the ten kingdoms, till at length it successively eradicated three of them, the kingdom of Heruli, of the Ostrogoths, and of the Lombards.

8,20; 8:9-12; 11:36; 2Th 2:3-10; 1Ti 4:1-3

he shall speak.In assuming infallibility, professing to forgive sins, and to open and shut heaven, thundering out bulls and anathemas, excommunicating princes, absolving subjects from their allegiance, and exacting obedience to his decrees in open violation of reason and Scripture.

8,20; 8:24,25; 11:28,30,31,36,37; Isa 37:23; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:5,6,11

shall wear out.By wars, crusades, massacres, etc.

Re 6:9,10; 11:7-10; 13:7-10; 14:12; 16:6; 17:6; 18:24

and think.Appointing feasts and fasts, canonizing saints, etc.

2:21; 11:31,36-38; 12:11; 2Th 2:4; 1Ti 4:1-3; Re 13:15-17

a time.That is, three years and a half, or, reckoning thirty days to a month, 1,260 days, equal to the same number of years in prophetic language; which, dated from the decree of Phocas constituting him the supreme head of the church, A.D. 606, terminated in 1866.

4:25,32; 12:7,11,12; Re 11:2,3; 12:6,14; 13:5,7

10,11,22; 2Th 2:8; Re 11:13; 20:10,11

the kingdom and.

14,18,22; Ps 149:5-9; Isa 49:23-26; 54:3; 60:11-16; Zep 3:19,20

Zec 14:9; Re 20:4

whose kingdom.

2:44; 4:34; Ps 145:13; Isa 9:7; Lu 1:33; Joh 12:34

and all.

Ps 2:6-12; 22:27; 72:11; 86:9; Isa 60:12; Ob 1:21; Re 11:15

dominions. or, rulers.

Re 17:14; 19:16

the end.

8:17,19; 11:27; 12:9,13

my cogitations.

15; 8:27; 10:8

but.

Ge 37:10; Mr 9:15; Lu 2:19,51; 9:44

Daniel 8

1 Daniel's vision of the ram and he goat.

13 The two thousand three hundred days of the suspension of the daily sacrifice.

15 Gabriel comforts Daniel, and interprets the vision.

Cir. A.M. 3451. B.C. 553. the third.

7:1

me Daniel.

15; 7:15,28; 9:2; 10:2,7; 11:4

I saw in.

3; 7:2,15; Nu 12:6; Heb 1:1

Shushan.

Ne 1:1; Es 1:2; 2:8; 3:15; 7:6; 8:15; 9:11,15

province.

Ge 10:22; 14:1; Isa 21:2; Jer 25:25; 49:34-39; Eze 32:24

Ulai.

I lifted.

10:5; Nu 24:2; Jos 5:13; 1Ch 21:16; Zec 1:18; 2:1; 5:1,5,9; 6:1

a ram.The Medo-Persian empire, of which a ram was the ensign; and a ram's head with horns, one higher than the other, is still to be seen on the ruins of Persepolis.

20; 2:39; 7:5

one.Media was the more ancient kingdom; but Persia, after Cyrus, was the most considerable.

5:31; 6:28; Ezr 1:2; 4:5; Es 1:3; Isa 13:17; 21:2; 44:28; Jer 51:11

the other. Heb. the second.

pushing.

5:30; 7:5; 11:2; Isa 45:1-5; Jer 50:1-51:64

neither.

8:7; Job 10:7; Ps 7:2; 50:22; Mic 5:8

but.

5:19; 11:3,16,36; Isa 10:13,14

an he-goat.

21; 2:32,39; 7:6

touched not the ground. or, none touched him in the earth.a notable horn. Heb. an horn of sight. Alexander the Great.

8,21; 11:3

to the.

moved.

11:11

and there was no.

Le 26:37; Jos 8:20

but.

7:7

there was none.

waxed.

De 31:20; Es 9:4; Jer 5:27; Eze 16:7

when.

4:31; 5:20; 2Ch 26:16; Ps 82:6,7; Eze 28:9

the great.

22; 7:6; 11:4

toward.

7:2; Mt 24:31; Mr 13:27; Re 7:1

came.

23,24; 7:8,20-26; 11:21,25-45

the pleasant.

11:16,41,45; Ps 48:2; 105:24; Jer 3:19; Eze 20:6,15; Zec 7:14

to the host. or, against the host.

24,25; 11:28,30,33-36; Isa 14:13; Re 12:4

and stamped.

7; 7:7

he magnified.

25; 5:23; 7:25; 11:36; 2Ki 19:22,23; 2Ch 32:15-22; Isa 37:23,29

Jer 48:26,42; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:5-7

to. or, against. the prince.

Jos 5:14,15; Heb 2:10; Re 17:14; 19:13-16

by him. or, from him. the daily.

12; 11:31; 12:11; Ex 29:38-42; Nu 28:3; Eze 46:14

and the place.

9:26,27; Lu 21:5,6,24

an host was given him against the daily sacrifice. or, thehost was given over for the transgression against the daily sacrifice.

11:31-35; Re 13:7

and it cast.

Ps 119:43,142; Isa 59:14; 2Th 2:10-12

and it practised.

4; 11:28,36; 1Sa 23:9; Job 12:6; Jer 12:1; Re 13:11-17

one saint.

4:13; 7:16; 12:5,6; De 33:2; Zec 1:9-12,19; 2:3,4; 14:5; 1Th 3:13

1Pe 1:12; Jude 1:14

that certain saint. or, the numberer of secrets, or, thewonderful numberer. Heb. Palmoni.

Jud 13:18; *marg:

Isa 9:6; Mt 11:27; Lu 10:22; Joh 1:18

How.

12:6; Ps 74:9; 79:5; Isa 6:11; Re 6:10

the vision.

11,12

and the.

9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Mt 24:15; Mr 13:14; Lu 21:20

of desolation. or, making desolate. to be.

7:23; Isa 63:18; Lu 21:24; Heb 10:29; Re 11:2

Unto.

7:25; 12:7,11; Re 11:2,3; 12:14; 13:5

two thousand.That is, 2,300 years, which reckoned from the time Alexander invaded Asia, B.C. 334, will be A.D. 1966.

days. Heb. evening, morning.

26; Ge 1:5

then.

Isa 1:27; Ro 11:26,27; Re 11:15

cleansed. Heb. justified.

Isa 45:25; Ga 3:8

I Daniel.

7:28

sought.

7:16-19; 12:8; Mt 13:36; 24:15; Mr 4:12; 13:14; 1Pe 1:10,11

Re 13:18

as.

10:5,16; Jos 5:14; Isa 9:6; Eze 1:26-28; Mt 24:30; Re 1:13

I heard.

10:11,12; Ac 9:7; 10:13; Re 1:12

between.

2; 12:5-7

Gabriel.

9:21; Lu 1:19,26

make.

9:22; 10:14,21; 12:7; Zec 1:9; 2:4; Heb 1:14; Re 22:16

I was.

10:7,8,16; Ge 17:3; Eze 1:28; Mt 17:8; Mr 9:4,5; Re 1:17; 19:9,10

Re 22:8

Understand.

15; 9:23; 10:11

O son.

Eze 2:1; 6:2

at.

19; 9:27; 11:35,36; 12:4,13; Hab 2:3

I was.

17,27; 10:8,9; Lu 9:32; 22:45

he touched.

10:10,16,18; Ge 15:12; Job 4:13; Eze 2:2; Zec 4:1; Ac 26:6

set me upright. Heb. made me stand upon my standing.

I will.

15-17; Re 1:1

the last.

17,23; 9:26,27; 11:27,35,36; 12:7,8; Hab 2:3; Re 10:7; 11:18

Re 15:1; 17:17

3; 11:1,2

the rough.

5-7; 10:20

the great.

8; 11:3

being broken.After Alexander's death, in the prime of life and in the height of his conquests, his brother and two sons were all murdered; and the kingdom was divided among four of his generals. 1. Seleucus, who had Syria and Babylon; 2. Lysimachus, who had Asia Minor; 3. Ptolemy, who had Egypt; and, 4. Cassander, who had Greece, etc.

whereas.

3; 11:4

in the.

10:14; Nu 24:24; Eze 38:8,16; 1Ti 4:1

when.

Ge 15:16; Mt 23:32; 1Th 2:16

come. Heb. accomplished. a king.The Roman empire, which reduced Judea to a province, burnt the city and temple, and scattered the Jews to the four winds of heaven.

9-12; 7:8,11,20,25; De 28:50

and understanding.

25; 11:21,24; 2Th 2:9-11; Re 13:11-14; 19:20

shall stand.

but.

Re 13:3-9; 17:12,13,17

shall prosper.

12; 11:36

shall destroy.

10,12; 7:25; 11:31-36; Re 13:10; 16:6; 17:6; 19:2

holy people. Heb. people of the holy ones.

through.

23,24; 7:8; 11:21-25,32,33

magnify.

11; 11:36,37; Jer 48:26

peace. or, prosperity.

11:21

stand.

11; 11:36; Re 17:14; 19:16

but.

2:34,35,44,45; 7:26; 11:45; Job 34:20; La 4:6; Ac 12:23; Re 19:19-21

the vision of.

11-15; 10:1

wherefore.

12:4,9; Eze 12:27; Re 10:4; 22:10

for.It is now 2,387 years since Daniel had this vision; and the utter desolation of the sanctuary had continued 1,764 years; and no doubt the end of 2,300 years is not far distant.

10:1,14; Isa 24:22; Ho 3:3,4

fainted.

7; 7:28; 10:8,16; Hab 3:16

and did.

2; 2:48,49; 5:14; 6:2,3; 1Sa 3:15

but.

15-17

Matthew 27:19

his.

Ge 20:3-6; 31:24,29; Job 33:14-17; Pr 29:1

that just.

4,24; Isa 53:11; Zec 9:9; Lu 23:41,47; 1Pe 2:22; 1Jo 2:1