Daniel 8:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Aku mengangkat mukaku dan melihat, tampak seekor domba jantan berdiri di depan sungai itu; tanduknya dua dan kedua tanduk itu tinggi, tetapi yang satu lebih tinggi dari yang lain, dan yang tinggi itu tumbuh terakhir.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Aku mengangkat mukaku dan melihat, tampak seekor domba jantan berdiri di depan sungai itu; tanduknya dua dan kedua tanduk itu tinggi, tetapi yang satu lebih tinggi dari yang lain, dan yang tinggi itu tumbuh terakhir.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka akupun angkatlah mataku, lalu kulihat bahwa sesungguhnya adalah seekor domba jantan berdiri di hadapan sungai itu dan adalah padanya tanduk dua pucuk, maka tanduk itu tinggi adanya, sepucuk tinggi dari pada pucuk yang lain, maka yang tinggi tumbuh kemudian.

Contextual Overview

¹ In the third yere of the raigne of king Balthasar, there appeared a vision vnto me [euen] vnto me Daniel, after that which I had seene in the beginning. ² I saw in a vision (and when I saw it, I was in the palace of Susis, which is in the prouince of Elam) and in the vision me thought I was by the riuer of Ulai. ³ Then I loked vp and saw, & beholde, there stoode before the riuer a ramme which had two hornes: and these two hornes were hye, but one was hyer then the other, & the hyest came vp last. ⁴ I saw that this ramme pushed with his hornes against the west, against the north, and against the south: so that no beastes might stand before him, nor defend them from his power, but he did as him listed, and became great. ⁵ And as I considered, beholde there came a hee goate from the west, ouer the whole earth, and touched not the grounde: and this goate had a horne appeared betwixt his eyes. ⁶ 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. ⁷ And I sawe him drawe nye vnto the ramme, being very fierce vpon him, yea he smote the ramme and brake his two hornes, neither had the ramme so much strength as to stande before him: but he cast him downe to the grounde, trode him vnder his feete, & there was none able to deliuer the ramme out of his power. ⁸ Therefore the goate waxed exceeding great, & when he was at the strongest, his great horne was broken: Then grew there other foure notable ones in the steade of it, towarde the foure windes of the heauen. ⁹ And out of one of them came foorth a litle horne, which waxed very great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the pleasaunt lande. ¹⁰ It grewe vp vnto the hoast of heauen, whereof it did cast some downe to the grounde, and of the starres also, and trode them vnder foote.

Bible Verse Review
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I lifted: Daniel 10:5, Numbers 24:2, Joshua 5:13, 1 Chronicles 21:16, Zechariah 1:18, Zechariah 2:1, Zechariah 5:1, Zechariah 5:5, Zechariah 5:9, Zechariah 6:1

a ram: The Medo-Persian empire, of which a ram was the ensign; and a ram's head with horns, one higher than the other, is still to be seen on the ruins of Persepolis. Daniel 8:20, Daniel 2:39, Daniel 7:5

one: Media was the more ancient kingdom; but Persia, after Cyrus, was the most considerable. Daniel 5:31, Daniel 6:28, Ezra 1:2, Ezra 4:5, Esther 1:3, Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 51:11

the other: Heb. the second

Reciprocal: Isaiah 45:1 - to subdue Jeremiah 51:28 - the kings Ezekiel 34:21 - ye have Daniel 2:32 - breast Daniel 5:28 - Thy Daniel 8:6 - to the Daniel 8:22 - whereas

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.

Genesis 7:24
But the water preuayled vpon the earth, a hundreth and fiftie dayes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I lifted up mine eyes,.... To see what was to be seen in this place, where he in the vision was brought; he lifted up the eyes of his understanding, being enlightened by the vision of prophecy, and the eyes of his body, to which objects of corporeal things formed in the fancy were represented:

and saw, and, behold; he saw something wonderful in a visionary way, and which struck his mind, and raised his attention:

there stood before the river; the river Ulai, near Shushan, the palace, the seat of the kings of Persia, to the east:

a ram, which had two horns; a symbol of the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, signified by the two horns, Daniel 8:20, an emblem of power and dominion, and sometimes used to signify kings and kingdoms; see Daniel 7:24 and these as united in one monarchy, under one monarch, Cyrus, and continued in his successors unto the times of Alexander; and therefore called "a ram", or "one ram" m, as in the original; and which in sound has some likeness to Elam or Persia: and this kingdom or monarchy may be signified by it, partly because of its strength and power, and partly because of its riches, as some think, as well as because it is a fighting creature; and it may be chiefly because this monarchy was mild, and kind, and gentle to the Jewish nation: and it is very remarkable, that, according to Ammianus Marcellinus n, the ram was the royal ensign of the Persians; whose kings used to wear for a diadem something made of gold, in the shape of a ram's head, set with little stones:

and the two horns were high; grew straight up on high, and so were different from the usual horns of a ram, which are crooked; denoting the great power, authority, wealth, and riches, these two kingdoms rose up unto:

but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last; I think the words might be rendered better, "and the first was higher than the second, but it ascended, or grew up, higher at last" o; the kingdom of the Medes was the first kingdom, and it was at first superior to the kingdom of Persia; but afterwards the kingdom of Persia became greater than that, under Cyrus and his successors: and Sir John Chardin says p, that rams' heads, with horns one higher than another, are still to be seen in the ruins of Persepolis.

m איל אחד "aries unus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c. n Hist. l. 19. o והאחת גבחה מן השנית והגבהה עלה באחרונה. p Travels, vol. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then I lifted up mine eyes and saw - And saw in vision, or there seemed to be before me.

There stood before the river - On the bank of the river.

A ram which had two horns - There can be no error in explaining the design of this symbol, for in Daniel 8:20 it is expressly said that it denoted the two kings of Media and Persia. The united power of the kingdom was denoted by the ram itself; the fact that there were two powers or kingdoms combined, by the two horns of the ram.

And the two horns were high - Both indicating great power.

But one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last - The higher horn springing up last denotes Persia, that became the more mighty power of the two, so that the name Media became finally almost dropped, and the united kingdom was known in Grecian history as the Persian The Median or Assyrian power was the older, but the Persian became the most mighty.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 8:3. A ram which had two horns — In the former vision there were four beasts, pointing out four empires; in this we have but two, as only two empires are concerned here, viz., the Grecian and the Persian. The Babylonish empire is not mentioned; its fate was before decided, and it was now at its close.

By the ram, the empire of the Medes and Persians was pointed out, as explained by the angel Gabriel, Daniel 8:20; and particularly Cyrus, who was the founder of that empire. Cyrus was the son of Cambyses, king of Persia; and grandson of Astyages, king of Media, by his daughter Mandane, who had been given in marriage to Cambyses. Cyrus marrying Roxana, the daughter and only child of his uncle Cyaxares, called in Scripture Ahasuerus, succeeded to both crowns, and thus united Media and Persia. A ram was the symbol of the Persians; and a ram's head with two horns, one higher than the other, appears as such in different parts of the ruins of Persepolis. See the plates of these ruins in the supplement to the seventh volume of the ancient part of the Universal History.

This ram had two horns; that is, two kingdoms, viz., Media and Persia; but one was higher than the other; and the higher came up last. Media, signified by the shorter horn, was the more ancient of the two kingdoms. Persia, the higher horn, had come up but lately, and was of little historic or political consequence till the time of Cyrus; but in the reigns of this prince and his immediate successors, Persia attained a political consequence greatly superior to that possessed at any time by the kingdom of Media; therefore, it is said to have been the higher, and to have come up last.