Daniel 8:20 KJV — MannaFest

Daniel 8:20

The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

KJV

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ASV

The ram which thou sawest, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

WEB

The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.

YLT

`The ram that thou hast seen possessing two horns, are the kings of Media and Persia.

DBT

The ram that thou sawest having the two horns: they are the kings of Media and Persia.

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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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Daniel 8:3
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Daniel 2:39
And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
Daniel 11:1–2
Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
Esther 1:3
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:

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

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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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