Daniel 7:21

Bishop's Bible

I behelde, and the same horne made battaile against the sainctes, yea & preuayled against them.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As I was watching, this horn waged war against the holy ones and was prevailing over them

Hebrew Names Version
I saw, and the same horn made war with the holy ones, and prevailed against them;

King James Version
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

English Standard Version
As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them,

New American Standard Bible
"I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and prevailing against them,

New Century Version
As I watched, the little horn began making war against God's holy people and was defeating them

Amplified Bible
"As I kept looking, that horn was making war with the saints (believers) and overpowering them

Geneva Bible (1587)
I beheld, and the same horne made battel against the Saintes, yea, & preuailed against them,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them

Berean Standard Bible
As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,

Contemporary English Version
While I was looking, this horn attacked God's chosen ones and was winning the battle.

Complete Jewish Bible
I watched, and that horn made war with the holy ones and was winning,

Darby Translation
I beheld, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed over them;

Easy-to-Read Version
As I was watching, this little horn began attacking and making war against God's holy people and killing them.

George Lamsa Translation
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them,

Good News Translation
While I was looking, that horn made war on God's people and conquered them.

Lexham English Bible
I continued watching, and this horn made war with the holy ones and it prevailed over them,

Literal Translation
I was looking, and that horn made war with the saints and overcame them,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I behelde, and the same horne made battail agaynst the sayntes, yee ad gat the victory off them:

American Standard Version
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Bible in Basic English
And I saw how that horn made war on the saints and overcame them,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

King James Version (1611)
I beheld, and the same horne made warre with the Saints, and preuailed against them;

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I beheld, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

English Revised Version
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

World English Bible
I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I bihelde, and lo! thilke horn made batel ayens hooli men, and hadde maistrie of hem,

Update Bible Version
I looked, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Webster's Bible Translation
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

New English Translation
While I was watching, that horn began to wage war against the holy ones and was defeating them,

New King James Version
"I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them,

New Living Translation
As I watched, this horn was waging war against God's holy people and was defeating them,

New Life Bible
As I watched, this horn was fighting a war against the holy ones and winning the battle,

New Revised Standard
As I looked, this horn made war with the holy ones and was prevailing over them,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I continued looking, when, this horn, made war with the holy ones, - and prevailed against them:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I beheld, and lo, that horn made war against the saints, and prevailed over them,

Revised Standard Version
As I looked, this horn made war with the saints, and prevailed over them,

Young's Literal Translation
`I was seeing, and this horn is making war with the saints, and hath prevailed over them,

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ I Daniel was troubled in my spirite in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head made me afrayde. ¹⁶ I gate me vnto one of them that stoode by, and asked him the trueth concerning all these thinges: so he tolde me, and made me vnderstand the interpretation of these thinges. ¹⁷ These great beastes which are foure, are foure kinges which shall arise out of the earth: ¹⁸ But the High saintes shall receaue a kingdome, and possesse a kingdome for euer, euen for euer and euer. ¹⁹ After this, I required to knowe the trueth concerning ye fourth beast, which was so vnlyke the other beastes, and so horrible, whose teeth were of iron, and his nayles of brasse, which deuoured and destroyed, and stamped the residue vnder his feete: ²⁰ [I desired] also [to knowe the trueth] as touching the ten hornes that he had vpon his head, and this other which came vp afterwarde, before whose face there fell downe three, which horne had eyes and a mouth that spake presumptuous thinges, and loked with a grimmer visage then his felowes. ²¹ I behelde, and the same horne made battaile against the sainctes, yea & preuayled against them. ²² Until the auncient of dayes came that the iudgement was geuen to the high sainctes, and till the time came that the sainctes had the kingdome in possession. ²³ He gaue me this aunswer: That fourth beast, shalbe the fourth kingdome vpon earth, it shalbe vnlike to all the kingdomes: it shall deuour, treade downe, and destroy all other landes. ²⁴ The ten hornes, are ten kinges that shall arise out of that kingdome: after whom there shall stande vp another, which shalbe vnlike to the first, and he shall subdue three kinges:

Bible Verse Review
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Daniel 8:12, Daniel 8:24, Daniel 11:31, Daniel 12:7, Revelation 11:7-9, Revelation 12:3, Revelation 12:4, Revelation 13:5-7, Revelation 13:8-18, Revelation 17:6, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 75:4 - Lift Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Revelation 9:21 - their murders Revelation 13:7 - to make Revelation 18:24 - in her

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.

Genesis 7:3
Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen, the male and the female, to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth.

Genesis 7:4
For after seuen dayes, I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes: & all substaunce that I haue made, wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth.

Genesis 7:6
And Noah was sixe hundreth yere olde, when the fluddes of water came vpon the earth.

Genesis 7:7
And Noah came, and his sonnes, and his wyfe, and his sonnes wyues with him to the arke, because of the waters of the fludde.

Genesis 7:15
And they came vnto Noah into the arke, two and two, of all fleshe wherein is the breath of lyfe.

Genesis 7:17
And the fludde came fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the arke, whiche was lyft vp aboue the earth.

Genesis 7:20
Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle, so that the mountaynes were couered.

Genesis 7:22
So that all that had the breath of lyfe in his nostrilles throughout all that was on the drye lande, dyed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints,.... The same little horn before described; not Antiochus Epiphanes, who made war with the Jews, as many think; or the Roman Caesars, that persecuted the church of Christ, as others; nor Titus Vespasian, who fought against Israel, as Saadiah; but antichrist, or the pope of Rome; and this refers to the wars of the popes with the Waldenses, which began in the year 1160, and continued long, and with the two witnesses at the close of their testimony, Revelation 11:7, this Daniel had a view of in vision; not while he was inquiring of the angel, but before, though not mentioned till now; and was a reason he was so very inquisitive about this little horn, because of its war with the saints, and its success, as follows:

and prevailed against them: as the popes and their abettors did against the Waldenses and Albigenses, whom they slew in great numbers, and got the victory over; as the beast also, the same with this little horn, will overcome the witnesses, and slay them, Revelation 11:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints - I continued to look on this until I saw war made by this horn with the people of God. This circumstance, also, is not referred to in the first description, and the order of time in the description would seem to imply that the war with the saints would be at a considerable period after the first appearance of the horn, or would be only when it had grown to its great size and power. This “war” might refer to open hostilities, carried on in the usual manner of war; or to persecution, or to any invasion of the rights and privileges of others. As it is a “war with the saints,” it would be most natural to refer it to persecution.

And prevailed against them - That is, he overcame and subdued them, he was stronger than they were, and they were not able to resist him. The same events are evidently referred to and in almost similar language - borrowed probably from Daniel - in Revelation 13:5-7 : “And there was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 7:21. The same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them. — Those who make Antiochus the little horn, make the saints the Jewish people. Those who understand the popedom by it, see this as referring to the cruel persecutions of the popes of Rome against the Waldenses and Albigenses, and the Protestant Church in general.