Verse 1
Daniel 8:1
Bible in Basic English
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In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first.
Original Language Text
hebrew
בִּ/שְׁנַ֣ת שָׁל֔וֹשׁ לְ/מַלְכ֖וּת בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֣ר הַ/מֶּ֑לֶךְ חָז֞וֹן נִרְאָ֤ה אֵלַ/י֙ אֲנִ֣י דָנִיֵּ֔אל אַחֲרֵ֛י הַ/נִּרְאָ֥ה אֵלַ֖/י בַּ/תְּחִלָּֽה
English Translation
In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision was revealed to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me at the beginning.
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Chapter 8 Context
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In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one...
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And I saw in the vision; and when I saw it, I was in the strong town Shushan, which is in the countr...
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And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two hor...
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I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to ke...
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And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all th...
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And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his...
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And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the she...
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And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its pla...
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And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the s...
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And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the...
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It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering w...
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... against the regular burned offering; and ... crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure...
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Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certai...
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And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will...
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And it came about that when I, Daniel, had seen this vision, I had a desire for the sense of it to b...
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And the voice of a man came to my ears between the sides of the Ulai, crying out and saying, Gabriel...
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So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down o...
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Now while he was talking to me, I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth: but touching me,...
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And he said, See, I will make clear to you what is to come in the later time of the wrath: for it ha...
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The sheep which you saw with two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
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And the he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
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And as for that which was broken, in place of which four came up, four kingdoms will come up from hi...
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And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will com...
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And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him a...
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And his designs will be turned against the holy people, causing deceit to do well in his hand; in hi...
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And the vision of evenings and mornings which has been talked of is true: and keep the vision secret...
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And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king's business: and I was full of w...
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