Daniel 8:21 KJV — MannaFest

Daniel 8:21

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

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ASV

And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

WEB

The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.

YLT

And the young he-goat, the hairy one, is the king of Javan; and the great horn that is between its eyes is the first king;

DBT

And the rough goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that was between his eyes is the first king.

About this book

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Daniel — 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

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8 verses on the floor

Daniel 8:5
And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Daniel 10:20
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
Daniel 11:3
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
Ezekiel 27:13
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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the first king--Philip was king of Macedon before Alexander, but the latter was the first who, as a generalissimo of Greece, subdued the Persian empire.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 12 And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The ram signified the succession of the kings of Media and Persia; the rough goat signified the kings of Greece; the great horn was Alexander; the four horns that rose in his room were the four kingdoms into which his conquests were cantoned, of which before,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H68426× in canon H312011× in canon H716176× in canon H7223182× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

DAN 8:21DAN 11:3 DAN 7:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
DAN 8:21DAN 11:3 DAN 11:36
DAN 8:21DAN 11:3 DAN 11:16
DAN 8:21DAN 10:20 DAN 8:5-8
DAN 8:21DAN 11:3 DAN 5:19
DAN 8:21DAN 10:20 DAN 11:2-4
DAN 8:21DAN 11:3 DAN 4:35
DAN 8:21DAN 10:20 ISA 37:36

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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