These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
WEB
‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.
YLT
`These great beasts, that are four, are four kings, they rise up from the earth;
DBT
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, [that] shall arise out of the earth.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2