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| Chapter 7
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1 |
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream
and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and
told the sum of the matters. |
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. |
3 | And four great beasts came up from the
sea, diverse one from another. |
4 |
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings
thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon
the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. |
5 | And behold another beast, a second,
like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had
three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said
thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. |
6 | After
this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the
back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and
dominion was given to it. |
7 | After this I saw
in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it
devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet
of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it;
and it had ten horns. |
8 | I considered the horns, and, behold,
there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were
three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in
this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
things. |
9 | I beheld till the thrones were cast
down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as
snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was
like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. |
10 | A
fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: 1thousand
thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
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Zech 14:5,
Matt 16:27,
Matt 25:31,
2nd Thess 1:7
Jude 14
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11 |
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn
spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body
destroyed, and given to the burning flame. |
12 |
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet
their lives were prolonged for a season and time. |
13 | I saw in the night visions, and,
behold, one like
the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the
Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Matt 24:30,
26:64
Mark 13:26
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14 | And there was given him 1dominion,
and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages,
should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.
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Matt 12:8
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15 |
I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the
visions of my head troubled me. |
16 |
I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth
of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of
the things. |
17 |
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall
arise out of the earth. |
18 | But the saints
of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for
ever, even for ever and ever. |
19 |
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse
from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron,
and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped
the residue with his feet; |
20 | And of
the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up,
and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a
mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than
his fellows. |
21 | I beheld, and the same horn made war
with the saints, and prevailed against them; |
22 | Until the Ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came
that the saints possessed the kingdom. |
23 |
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon
earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour
the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. |
24 | And the ten horns out of this kingdom
are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;
and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three
kings. |
25 | And he shall speak great words against
the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and
think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his
hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. |
26 |
But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion,
to consume and to destroy it unto the end. |
27 |
And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under
the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the
most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all
dominions shall serve and obey him. |
28 |
Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much
troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my
heart. |