²⁰ Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight ^(A)with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come.

²¹ And the ^[a]male goat is the ^[b]kingdom of Greece. The large horn that is between its eyes ^(A)is the first king.

² And now I will tell you the truth: Behold, three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than them all; by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. ³ Then ^(A)a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion, and ^(B)do according to his will. ⁴ And when he has arisen, ^(C)his kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not among his posterity ^(D)nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for others besides these.

^13 (A)But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, ^(B)Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.

⁵ And as I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a notable ^(A)horn between his eyes. ⁶ Then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power. ⁷ And I saw him confronting the ram; he was moved with rage against him, ^[a]attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him; and there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand.

⁸ Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it ^(B)four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.

²³ Then immediately an angel of the Lord ^(A)struck him, because ^(B)he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and ^[a]died.

⁶ “After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had ^(A)four heads, and dominion was given to it.

Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death^(A)

³⁶ Then the ^(B)angel^[a] of the Lord went out, and ^[b]killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead.