Daniel 8:6

Contemporary English Version

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

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.

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.

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.

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

¹ Daniel wrote: In the third year of King Belshazzar of Babylonia, I had a second vision ² in which I was in Susa, the chief city of Babylonia's Elam Province. I was beside the Ulai River, ³ when I looked up and saw a ram standing there with two horns on its head—both of them were long, but the second one was longer than the first. ⁴ The ram went charging toward the west, the north, and the south. No other animals were strong enough to oppose him, and nothing could save them from his power. So he did as he pleased and became even more powerful. ⁵ I kept on watching and saw a goat come from the west and charge across the entire earth, without even touching the ground. Between his eyes was a powerful horn, ⁶ and with tremendous anger the goat started toward the ram that I had seen beside the river. ⁷ The goat was so fierce that its attack broke both horns of the ram, leaving him powerless. Then the goat stomped on the ram, and no one could do anything to help. ⁸ After this, the goat became even more powerful. But at the peak of his power, his mighty horn was broken, and four other mighty horns took its place—one pointing to the north and one to the east, one to the south and one to the west. ⁹ A little horn came from one of these, and its power reached to the south, the east, and even to the holy land. ¹⁰ It became so strong that it attacked the stars in the sky, which were heaven's army. Then it threw some of them down to the earth and stomped on them.

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Cross-References

Genesis 6:16
Build a roof on the boat and leave a space of about eighteen inches between the roof and the sides. Make the boat three stories high and put a door on one side.

Daniel 6:10
Daniel heard about the law, but when he returned home, he went upstairs and prayed in front of the window that faced Jerusalem. In the same way that he had always done, he knelt down in prayer three times a day, giving thanks to God.

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.