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Daniel 7:17
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‘These huge beasts, four in number, are four kings who will rise from the earth.
These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the eretz.
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.
'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.
‘The four great animals are four kingdoms that will come from the earth.
'These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.
These great beastes which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth,
'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.
'These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.
"The four beasts are four earthly kingdoms.
‘These four huge animals are four kingdoms that will arise on earth.
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, [that] shall arise out of the earth.
He said, ‘The four great animals are four kingdoms that will come from the earth.
Then he said to me, These four great beasts which you saw are four kings which shall arise out of the earth.
He said, "These four huge beasts are four empires which will arise on earth.
‘These great beasts which are four in number are four kings who will arise from the earth.
These great beasts are four, four kings; they shall rise up out of the earth.
These foure greate beastes, are foure kinges which shal aryse out of the earth.
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
These great beasts are four kings who will be cut off from the earth.
'These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
These great beasts, which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
These great beastes which are foure, are foure kinges which shall arise out of the earth:
These four beasts are four kingdoms that shall rise up on the earth:
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
These foure grete beestis ben foure rewmes, that schulen rise of erthe.
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
These great beasts, which are four, [are] four kings, [which] shall arise out of the earth.
‘These large beasts, which are four in number, represent four kings who will arise from the earth.
'Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings Daniel 7:23)">[fn] which arise out of the earth.
"These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth.
‘These four large animals are four kings who will rise from the earth.
"As for these four great beasts, four kings shall arise out of the earth.
These great wild beasts, which are four, - are four kings who shall arise out of the earth;
These four great beasts, are four kingdoms, which shall arise out of the earth.
`These great beasts, that [are] four, [are] four kings, they rise up from the earth;
"‘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
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
For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
And rain fell upon the earth 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 βαÏιλειÍαι basileiai; Luther, Reiche; Lengerke, Konigreiche. This interpretation is confirmed, also, by Daniel 7:23, where it is expressly said that âthe fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth.â 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.
