Verse 1
In the third year: 426 B.C. (see App-50 ). Daniel being eighty-seven.
a vision . Like the vision in Daniel 7:0 , this also is complete in itself, but is necessary to contribute its proof of the unity of the book as a whole. This vision (and the rest of the book from here) is written in Hebrew; because its purpose is to show how Gentile dominion (of Daniel 2:0 ) specially concerns and affects Israel.
after . Two years after. At the end of the Babylonian empire, for Belshazaar reigned little more than two years.
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