Daniel 7:3 KJV — MannaFest

Daniel 7:3

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

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ASV

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

WEB

Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:

YLT

and four great beasts are coming up from the sea, diverse one from another.

DBT

And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another.

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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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11 verses on the floor

Revelation 13:1
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Zechariah 6:1
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
Daniel 7:17
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Daniel 7:4–8
The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
Daniel 2:32–33
This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

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

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), of different shapes, to denote the different genius and complexion of the nations in whose hands they were lodged. (1.) The first beast was like a lion,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But the "beasts" here represent the world powers, in their beast-like, grovelling character. It is on the fundamental harmony between nature and spirit, between the three kingdoms of nature, history, and revelation, that Scripture symbolism rests. The selection of symbols is not arbitrary, but based on the essence of things.

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

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