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Daniel 7:1 KJV
Daniel · chapter 7 · verse 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.Daniel 7:1 · King James Version
Daniel 7:1 in context
1In 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.
2Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- BelshazzarBêlshaʼtstsar{Belshatstsar, a Babylonian king}H1113 →
- BabylonBabel{Babel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire}H895 →
- visionschêzêva sightH2376 →
- DanielDânîyêʼlDanijel, the Hebrew prophetH1841 →
- firstchadas card. oneH2298 →
- dreamchêlema dreamH2493 →
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The date of this chapter places it before ch. 5, which was in the last year of Belshazzar, and ch. 6, which was in the first of Darius; for Daniel had those visions in the first year of Belshazzar, when the captivity of the Jews in Babylon was drawing near a period.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8