Daniel 7:17 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 7:17

‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

KJV

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

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Commentary

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Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SEVEN (420)

Verses 17, 18. "These four great beasts are the four kingdoms which shall arise from the earth. But the saints of the Most High God shall take the kingdom." The four kingdoms of which we have spoken above were earthly in character. "For everything which is of the earth shall return to earth" (Ecclesiastes 3:20). But the saints shall never possess an earthly kingdom, but only a heavenly. Away, then, with the fable about a millennium! (Revelation 20:4-6) "...And they shall possess the kingdom unto eternity, even forever and ever..."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings - Four kings or four dynasties. There is no reason for supposing that they refer to individual kings, but the obvious meaning is, that they refer to four dominions or empires that would succeed one another on the earth. So the whole representation leads us to suppose, and so the passage has been always interpreted. The Latin Vulgate renders it regna; the Septuagint βασιλεῖαι basileiai; Luther, Reiche; Lengerke, Konigreiche.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Compare Da 7:23, "fourth kingdom"; Each of the four kings represents a dynasty. Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, Antiochus, and Antichrist, though individually referred to, are representatives of characteristic tendencies.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִלֵּין֙	'i.Lein	these	H459 →
חֵיוָתָ֣א	chei.va.Ta'	beasts the	H2423 →
רַבְרְבָתָ֔א	rav.re.va.Ta'	<the> great	H7260 →
דִּ֥י	di	which	H1768 →
אִנִּ֖ין	'i.Nin	they	H581 →
אַרְבַּ֑ע	'ar.Ba'	[are] four	H703 →
אַרְבְּעָ֥ה	'ar.be.'Ah	four	H703 →
מַלְכִ֖ין	mal.Khin	kings	H4430 →
יְקוּמ֥וּן	ye.ku.Mun	they will arise	H6966 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4481 →
אַרְעָֽא׃	'ar.'A'	earth the	H772 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 13:1
Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
leads to
- Revelation 11:7
  When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 12:3
  Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
- Revelation 17:3
  And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten…
Through
John 18:36
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”
leads to
- Luke 17:20–21
  When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.
- Colossians 1:12–14
  giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
- Romans 14:17
  For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- John 6:15
  Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
- Daniel 2:44
  In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms…