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Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Daniel 7:1-28

Chapter 7Now at this point we come to, more or less, the end of the historic part of the book of Daniel. And beginning with chapter 7, we are now gonna go back and deal with visions that Daniel had during previous years. In other words, as we go to chapter 7, this particular vision came to Daniel in the first year that Belshazzar was king. You see, our story has taken us out to the end of Daniel's life during the reigns of Darius and Cyrus, the Medo-Persian kings. But now going back, we're... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 7:1-28

Daniel 7:1 . In the first year of Belshazzar. The book of Daniel is divided into two parts; the first six chapters being historic, and the latter prophetic. This dream of Daniel’s has a connection with that which regarded Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel 2:15; Daniel 2:26. Both those princes were proud and wicked men; yet God had mercy on them and on their people, and was graciously pleased to give them admonition by special revelations of future times. Daniel dreamed of the four beasts, but the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 7:2-3

Daniel 7:2-3I saw in my vision by night.Modes of Communication with GodSince the days of the apostles, the intercourse between Heaven and earth has been maintained through the ordinary channels. God speaks to man through the medium of his conscience--in the Bible, and by the operation of His providence. These are now the appointed means whereby we are to ascertain a knowledge of our duty. Not that our Heavenly Father is less desirous of guiding us into the path of truth, or that we, His... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 7:2

Dan 7:2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. Ver. 2. Daniel spake and said. ] His writing is called his speaking, to teach us to receive the writings of the prophets and apostles with no less reverence than if we had heard them speak with their own mouths. a I saw in my vision by night. ] The night doth in Scripture frequently signify trouble. This "vision by night" was of troublesome businesses - viz.,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Daniel 7:2

the four: Revelation 7:1 the great: Revelation 17:15 Reciprocal: Jeremiah 49:36 - the four winds Daniel 7:7 - I saw Daniel 8:2 - I saw in Daniel 8:8 - toward Zechariah 1:8 - by night Zechariah 6:5 - spirits Revelation 13:1 - and saw read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Daniel 7:2

Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.The four winds — Probably by the four winds of the great sea is signified commotions of contrary nations, striving together by wars, and producing these four beasts successively. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:2-3

2, 3. The four winds of the heaven [for the numerical symbolism see Introduction to Ezekiel, VIII] strove (literally, burst forth) upon the waters of the Mediterranean (Ezekiel 47:10) the great international ocean of the ancients, and therefore symbolic of all the imperial powers “of the earth” (Daniel 7:17, and compare Isaiah 17:0; Psalms 65:7) and out of this boiling tempest the prophet sees in vision each savage empire thrown up upon the shore (Daniel 7:4) in the form of a hideous... read more