Daniel 8:6

Amplified Bible

He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and charged at him in [the fury of] his power and wrath.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with savage fury.

Hebrew Names Version
He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.

King James Version
And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.

English Standard Version
He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath.

New American Standard Bible
He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath.

New Century Version
In his anger the goat charged the sheep with the two horns that I had seen standing by the canal.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he came vnto the ramme that had the two hornes, whome I had seene standing by the riuer, and ranne vnto him in his fierce rage.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath.

Berean Standard Bible
He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with furious power.

Contemporary English Version
and with tremendous anger the goat started toward the ram that I had seen beside the river.

Complete Jewish Bible
It approached the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the river, and charged it with savage force.

Darby Translation
And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power.

Easy-to-Read Version
The goat came to the ram with the two horns. (This was the ram I had seen standing by the Ulai River.) The goat was very angry and ran at the ram.

George Lamsa Translation
And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river Abol, and ran against him in the fury of his power.

Good News Translation
He came toward the ram, which I had seen standing beside the river, and rushed at him with all his force.

Lexham English Bible
Then it came toward the ram that had the two horns that I saw standing before the stream, and it ran at it with the rage of its power.

Literal Translation
And he came to the ram with two horns which I had seen standing before the canal. And he ran to it in the fury of his power.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and came vnto the ramme, that had the two hornes (whom I had sene afore by the ryuer syde) and ranne fearcely vpon him with his might.

American Standard Version
And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power.

Bible in Basic English
And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the stream, and ran at him in the fury of his power.

King James Version (1611)
And he came to the ramme that had two hornes, which I had seene standing before the riuer, and ranne vnto him in the furie of his power.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he came vnto the ramme that had the two hornes (whom I had seene standing by the riuer) and ranne fiercely vpon him with his might.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he came to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing in front of the Ubal, and he ran at him with the violence of his strength.

English Revised Version
And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power.

World English Bible
He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he cam til to that horned ram, which Y hadde seyn stondynge bifore the yate, and he ran in the fersnesse of his strengthe to that ram.

Update Bible Version
And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he came to the ram that had [two] horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran to him in the fury of his power.

New English Translation
It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength.

New King James Version
Then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power.

New Living Translation
headed toward the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the river, rushing at him in a rage.

New Life Bible
He came up to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing by the river, and rushed at him in his strong anger.

New Revised Standard
It came toward the ram with the two horns that I had seen standing beside the river, and it ran at it with savage force.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then he came up to the ram having the two horns, which I had seen, standing before the river, - and ran unto him, in the fury of his strength.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his strength.

Revised Standard Version
He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the river, and he ran at him in his mighty wrath.

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh unto the ram possessing the two horns, that I had seen standing before the stream, and runneth unto it in the fury of its power.

Contextual Overview

¹In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a [second] vision appeared to me, Daniel, [this was two years] after the one that first appeared to me. ²I looked in the vision and it seemed that I was at the citadel of Susa, [the capital of Persia], which is in the province of Elam; and I looked in the vision and I saw myself by the Ulai Canal. ³Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there in front of the canal stood a [lone] ram (the Medo-Persian Empire) which had two horns. The two horns were high, but one (Persia) was higher than the other (Media), and the higher one came up last. ⁴I saw the ram (Medo-Persia) charging westward and northward and southward; no beast could stand before him, nor was there anyone who could rescue [anything] from his power, but he did as he pleased and magnified himself. ⁵As I was observing [this], behold, a male goat (Greece) was coming from the west [rushing] across the face of the whole earth without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous and remarkable horn (Alexander the Great) between his eyes. ⁶He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and charged at him in [the fury of] his power and wrath.⁷[In my vision] I saw him come close to the ram (Medo-Persia), and he was filled with rage toward him; and the goat (Greece) struck the ram and shattered his two horns, and the ram had no strength to stand before him. So the goat threw him to the ground and trampled on him, and there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power. ⁸Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly, and when he was [young and] strong, the great horn (Alexander) was [suddenly] broken; and in its place there came up four prominent horns [among whom the kingdom was divided, one] toward [each of] the four winds of heaven. ⁹Out of one of them (Antiochus IV Epiphanes) came forth a rather small horn [but one of irreverent presumption and profane pride] which grew exceedingly powerful toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land (Israel). ¹⁰And [in my vision] this horn grew up to the host of heaven, and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled on them.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Daniel 8:23 - shall stand

Cross-References

Genesis 6:16
"You shall make a window [for light and ventilation] for the ark, and finish it to at least a cubit (eighteen inches) from the top—and set the [entry] door of the ark in its side; and you shall make it with lower, second and third decks.

Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he went into his house (now in his roof chamber his windows were open toward Jerusalem); he continued to get down on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he came to the ram that had two horns,.... Alexander being chosen and made by the states of Greece captain general of all Greece against the Persians, marched from thence with his army, passed the Hellespont, and entered into the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, signified by the ram with two horns, and came up to Darius Codomannus, possessed of this large monarchy, and at the head of a numerous army:

which I had seen standing before the river; the river Ulai, near to Shushan, the royal seat of the kings of Persia; here Darius stood in his royal majesty and dignity, as the defender of his empire, and unconcerned at the attempt of Alexander, having nothing to fear, as he thought, from such a puny adversary:

and ran unto him in the fury of his power; or, "heat of his power" b; which denotes the haste Alexander made with his army into Asia; his eager desire, and the fervour of his mind to engage with the Persians: the historian says, that he passed the Hellespont into Asia, "incredibli ardore mentis accensus"; fired with an incredible ardour of mind: and a little after, having conquered the rebels of Pisidia, he marched against Darius, "summo mentis ardore"; with the greatest ardour of mind, and with no less alacrity c; which exactly agrees with the sacred text. The running of the he goat to the ram in a hostile way is described in allusion to the manner of those creatures when they fight with one another, or attack an enemy.

b בחמת כחו "fervore virtutis suae", Munster; "cum ardore virium suarum", Cocceius; "in aestu robaris sui", Michaelis. c Supplem. in Curt. l. 2. p. 26, 28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he came to the ram ... - Representing the Medo-Persian power.

And ran unto him in the fury of his power - Representing the fierceness and fury with which Alexander attacked the Persians at the Granicus, at Issus, and at Arbela, with which he invaded and overthrew them in their own country. Nothing would better express this than to say that it was done in “the fury of power.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 8:6. And he came to the ram. — This and the following verse give an account of the overthrow of the Persian empire by Alexander.

And ran unto him in the fury of his power — The conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians were excessively severe. Alexander first vanquished the generals of Darius, at the river Granicus, in Phrygia; he next attacked and totally routed Darius, at the straits of Issus, in Cilicia; and afterwards at the plains of Arbela, in Assyria. One can hardly read these words, says Bp. Newton, "the ram - which I had seen standing by the river, ran unto him in the fury of his power," without having the image of Darius' army standing and guarding the river Granicus and of Alexander on the other side, with his forces plunging in swimming across the stream, and rushing on the enemy, with all the fire and fury that can be conceived.