Daniel 7

1In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Gen 46:2 · Num 12:6 · Job 4:13 · Job 33:14 · Isa 8:1 · +24 more

2Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.Cross-references: Rev 7:1 · Rev 17:15

3Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.Cross-references: Ps 76:4 · Ezek 19:3 · Dan 2:32 · Dan 2:37 · Dan 7:4 · Dan 7:17 · +2 more

4“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · 2Sam 1:23 · Job 25:6 · Ps 9:20 · Isa 5:28 · Isa 14:13 · +16 more

5“Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’Cross-references: 2Ki 2:24 · Prov 17:12 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 56:9 · Jer 50:21 · Ezek 39:17 · +5 more

6“After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.Cross-references: Ezek 17:3 · Dan 2:39 · Dan 7:4 · Dan 8:5 · Dan 8:20 · Dan 10:20 · +3 more

7“After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome, powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.Cross-references: 2Sam 22:43 · Dan 2:40 · Dan 7:2 · Dan 7:13 · Dan 7:19 · Dan 7:23 · +5 more

8“I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking arrogantly.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:3 · Ps 12:3 · Dan 7:20 · Dan 8:9 · Dan 8:23 · Dan 11:36 · +8 more

9“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was Ancient of Days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.Cross-references: Ps 45:8 · Ps 90:2 · Ps 102:24 · Ps 104:2 · Isa 9:6 · Ezek 1:13 · +19 more

10A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.Cross-references: Deut 33:2 · 1Ki 22:19 · Ps 50:3 · Ps 68:17 · Ps 96:11 · Ps 97:2 · +13 more

11“I watched at that time because of the voice of the arrogant words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.Cross-references: Dan 7:8 · Dan 7:25 · Dan 8:25 · Dan 11:45 · 2Thess 2:8 · 2Pet 2:18 · +7 more

12As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.Cross-references: Dan 7:4 · Dan 8:7

13“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.Cross-references: Ps 8:4 · Ps 47:5 · Ps 68:17 · Isa 9:6 · Jer 49:19 · Ezek 1:26 · +23 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

14Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom one that will not be destroyed.Cross-references: Ps 2:6 · Ps 8:6 · Ps 45:6 · Ps 72:11 · Ps 72:17 · Ps 102:22 · +30 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

15“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.Cross-references: Gen 40:7 · Gen 41:8 · Jer 15:17 · Jer 17:16 · Dan 2:1 · Dan 2:3 · +10 more

16I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.Cross-references: Dan 7:10 · Dan 8:13 · Dan 9:22 · Dan 10:5 · Dan 10:11 · Dan 12:5 · +5 more

17‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.Cross-references: Ps 17:14 · Dan 2:37 · Dan 7:3 · Dan 8:19 · John 18:36 · Rev 13:1 · +1 more

18But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’Cross-references: Ps 45:16 · Ps 149:5 · Isa 60:12 · Dan 7:22 · Dan 7:27 · Eph 1:3 · +6 more

19“Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;Cross-references: Dan 2:40 · Dan 7:7

20and concerning the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke arrogantly, whose look was more stout than its fellows.Cross-references: Dan 7:8 · Dan 7:11 · Dan 7:23 · Dan 8:9 · Dan 11:36

21I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,Cross-references: Dan 8:12 · Dan 8:24 · Dan 11:31 · Dan 12:7 · Rev 11:7 · Rev 12:3 · +4 more

22until 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.Cross-references: Isa 63:4 · Dan 7:9 · Dan 7:18 · Matt 19:28 · Luke 22:29 · 1Cor 6:2 · +9 more

23“So he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down and break it in pieces.Cross-references: Dan 2:40 · Dan 7:7 · Luke 2:1

24As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings.Cross-references: Dan 7:7 · Dan 7:20 · Dan 8:9 · Dan 11:36 · 2Thess 2:3 · 1Tim 4:1 · +5 more

25He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.Cross-references: Isa 37:23 · Dan 2:21 · Dan 4:25 · Dan 4:32 · Dan 7:8 · Dan 7:20 · +19 more

26“‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.Cross-references: Dan 7:10 · Dan 7:22 · 2Thess 2:8 · Rev 11:13 · Rev 20:10

27The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’Cross-references: Ps 2:6 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:11 · Ps 86:9 · Ps 145:13 · Ps 149:5 · +19 more

28“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”Cross-references: Gen 37:10 · Dan 4:19 · Dan 5:6 · Dan 7:15 · Dan 8:17 · Dan 8:19 · +9 more