Daniel 8:7-9
1599 Geneva Bible
7 And I saw him come unto the ram, and being moved against him, he [a]smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand against him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him, and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his power.
8 Therefore the goat waxed exceeding great, and when he was at the strongest, his great [b]horn was broken: and for it came up four that [c]appeared toward the four winds of the heaven.
9 And out of one of them came forth a [d]little horn, which waxed very great toward the [e]South, and toward the [f]East, and toward the [g]pleasant land.
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- Daniel 8:7 Alexander overcame Darius in two sundry battles, and so had the two kingdoms of the Medes and Persians.
- Daniel 8:8 Alexander’s great power was broken: for when he had overcome all the East, he thought to return toward Greece to subdue them that had rebelled, and so died by the way.
- Daniel 8:8 That is, which were famous: for almost in the space of fifteen years there were fifteen divers successors before this monarchy was divided to these four, whereof Cassander had Macedonia, Seleucus Syria, Antigonus Asia the less, and Ptolemy Egypt.
- Daniel 8:9 Which was Antiochus Epiphanes, who was of a servile and flattering nature, and also there were others between him and the kingdom, and therefore is here called the little horn, because neither princely conditions, nor any other thing was in him, why he should obtain this kingdom.
- Daniel 8:9 That is, toward Egypt.
- Daniel 8:9 Whereby he meaneth Ptolemeus.
- Daniel 8:9 That is, Judea.
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