Daniel 7:1-3

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Daniel’s vision: four beasts

7 In the first year of Babylon’s King Belshazzar, Daniel had a dream—a vision in his head as he lay on his bed. He wrote the dream down. Here is the beginning of the account:

²I am Daniel. In the vision I had during the night I saw the four winds of heaven churning the great sea. ³Four giant beasts emerged from the sea, each different from the others.

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Daniel 7:15-18

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Beasts interpreted

¹⁵Now this caused me, Daniel, to worry.^[a] My visions disturbed me greatly. ¹⁶So I went to one of the servants who was standing ready nearby. I asked him for the truth about all this.

He spoke to me and explained to me the meaning of these things. ¹⁷“These four giant beasts are four kings that will rise up from the earth, ¹⁸but the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingship. They will hold the kingship securely forever and always.”

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