Daniel 7:17

New Living Translation

"These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
‘These huge beasts, four in number, are four kings who will rise from the earth.

Hebrew Names Version
These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the eretz.

King James Version
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

English Standard Version
‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.

New American Standard Bible
'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

New Century Version
‘The four great animals are four kingdoms that will come from the earth.

Amplified Bible
'These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
These great beastes which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

Berean Standard Bible
'These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.

Contemporary English Version
"The four beasts are four earthly kingdoms.

Complete Jewish Bible
‘These four huge animals are four kingdoms that will arise on earth.

Darby Translation
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, [that] shall arise out of the earth.

Easy-to-Read Version
He said, ‘The four great animals are four kingdoms that will come from the earth.

George Lamsa Translation
Then he said to me, These four great beasts which you saw are four kings which shall arise out of the earth.

Good News Translation
He said, "These four huge beasts are four empires which will arise on earth.

Lexham English Bible
‘These great beasts which are four in number are four kings who will arise from the earth.

Literal Translation
These great beasts are four, four kings; they shall rise up out of the earth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These foure greate beastes, are foure kinges which shal aryse out of the earth.

American Standard Version
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

Bible in Basic English
These great beasts are four kings who will be cut off from the earth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

King James Version (1611)
These great beasts, which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
These great beastes which are foure, are foure kinges which shall arise out of the earth:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
These four beasts are four kingdoms that shall rise up on the earth:

English Revised Version
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

World English Bible
These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These foure grete beestis ben foure rewmes, that schulen rise of erthe.

Update Bible Version
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
These great beasts, which are four, [are] four kings, [which] shall arise out of the earth.

New English Translation
‘These large beasts, which are four in number, represent four kings who will arise from the earth.

New King James Version
'Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings Daniel 7:23)">[fn] which arise out of the earth.

New Life Bible
‘These four large animals are four kings who will rise from the earth.

New Revised Standard
"As for these four great beasts, four kings shall arise out of the earth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These great wild beasts, which are four, - are four kings who shall arise out of the earth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
These four great beasts, are four kingdoms, which shall arise out of the earth.

Revised Standard Version
'These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
`These great beasts, that [are] four, [are] four kings, they rise up from the earth;

THE MESSAGE
"‘These four huge animals,' he said, ‘mean that four kingdoms will appear on earth. But eventually the holy people of the High God will be given the kingdom and have it ever after—yes, forever and ever.'

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ I, Daniel, was troubled by all I had seen, and my visions terrified me. ¹⁶ So I approached one of those standing beside the throne and asked him what it all meant. He explained it to me like this: ¹⁷ "These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth. ¹⁸ But in the end, the holy people of the Most High will be given the kingdom, and they will rule forever and ever." ¹⁹ Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, the one so different from the others and so terrifying. It had devoured and crushed its victims with iron teeth and bronze claws, trampling their remains beneath its feet. ²⁰ I also asked about the ten horns on the fourth beast's head and the little horn that came up afterward and destroyed three of the other horns. This horn had seemed greater than the others, and it had human eyes and a mouth that was boasting arrogantly. ²¹ As I watched, this horn was waging war against God's holy people and was defeating them, ²² until the Ancient One—the Most High—came and judged in favor of his holy people. Then the time arrived for the holy people to take over the kingdom. ²³ Then he said to me, "This fourth beast is the fourth world power that will rule the earth. It will be different from all the others. It will devour the whole world, trampling and crushing everything in its path. ²⁴ Its ten horns are ten kings who will rule that empire. Then another king will arise, different from the other ten, who will subdue three of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

great: Daniel 7:3, Daniel 7:4, Daniel 2:37-40, Daniel 8:19-22

out: Daniel 7:3, Psalms 17:14, John 18:36, Revelation 13:1, Revelation 13:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:30 - dukess in the Psalms 76:4 - mountains 1 Corinthians 10:4 - that Rock

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created."

Genesis 7:12
The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings,.... Or kingdoms, as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; and so Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Saadiah; so the fourth beast is called the fourth kingdom, Daniel 7:23 or a succession of kings in four kingdoms or monarchies, comparable to beasts for their strength, cruelty, and tyranny: these are the words of him that stood by, of one of the angels Daniel applied to, to know the meaning of his dream; and might be better rendered, "as to these c great beasts, which are four"; for their quality beasts, for their quantity great, and for number four. The meaning is,

four kings shall arise out of the earth; or kingdoms; which have an earthly original and foundation; are supported by earthly and worldly means, and with earthly and worldly views; and are different from the kingdom of Christ and his saints, which is not of the world, though it may be in it: this explains what is meant by the great sea, from whence these beasts are said to come up, Daniel 7:3, nor is it any material objection that the first of these kingdoms, the Babylonian, was risen already, and almost at an end; since the denomination is taken from the larger number; three of them were to arise, and the first was of the same original with them; thus it is said, Daniel 11:2, that three kings of Persia should stand up, and yet Cyrus, who was one of them, reigned already.

c "Quod attinet", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings - Four kings or four dynasties. There is no reason for supposing that they refer to individual kings, but the obvious meaning is, that they refer to four dominions or empires that would succeed one another on the earth. So the whole representation leads us to suppose, and so the passage has been always interpreted. The Latin Vulgate renders it regna; the Septuagint βασιλεῖαι basileiai; Luther, Reiche; Lengerke, Konigreiche. This interpretation is confirmed, also, by Daniel 7:23, where it is expressly said that “the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth.” See also Daniel 7:24.

Which shall arise out of the earth - In Daniel 7:2 the beasts are represented as coming up from the sea - the emblem of agitated nations. Here the same idea is presented more literally - that they would seem to spring up out of the earth, thus thrown into wild commotion. These dynasties were to be upon the earth, and they were in all things to indicate their earthly origin. Perhaps, also, it is designed by these words to denote a marked contrast between these four dynasties and the one that would follow - which would be of heavenly origin. This was the general intimation which was given to the meaning of the vision, and he was satisfied at once as to the explanation, so far as the first three were concerned; but the fourth seemed to indicate more mysterious and important events, and respecting this he was induced to ask a more particular explanation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. These great beasts - are four kings — See the preceding verses, where the following explanations are inserted and illustrated.