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Dan. 7:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And behold another beastq, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up λitself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

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Dan. 2:39• ³⁹And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee; then another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. (Dan. 2:39)

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or, one dominion.

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Dan. 2:39• ³⁹And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee; then another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. (Dan. 2:39)

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Dan. 8:3• ³And I lifted up mine eyes and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns; and the two horns were high; and one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. (Dan. 8:3)

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2 Kings 2:24• ²⁴And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two children of them. (2 Kings 2:24)

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Prov. 17:12• ¹²Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly. (Prov. 17:12)

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Hos. 13:8• ⁸I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them. (Hos. 13:8)

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or, one dominion.

Dan. 5:28• ²⁸PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. (Dan. 5:28)

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Dan. 8:4• ⁴I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, and no beast could stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; and he did according to his will, and became great. (Dan. 8:4)

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Dan. 11:2• ²And now will I declare unto thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall enrich himself with great riches more than all; and when he hath become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. (Dan. 11:2)

three ribs.Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.Arise.

Isa. 13:17‑18• ¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.
¹⁸And their bows shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb: their eye shall not spare children. (Isa. 13:17‑18)

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Isa. 56:9• ⁹All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, all ye beasts in the forest. (Isa. 56:9)

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Jer. 50:21‑32• ²¹Go up against the land of double rebellion, against it, and against the inhabitants of visitation; waste and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
²²A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.
²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
²⁴I have laid a snare for thee, and thou, Babylon, art also taken, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught, for thou hast contended with Jehovah.
²⁵Jehovah hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for this is a work for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans.
²⁶Come ye against her from every quarter, open her storehouses; pile her up like sheaves, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
²⁷Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
²⁸The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.
²⁹Call together the archers against Babylon, all those that bend the bow: encamp against her round about; let there be no escaping: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.
³⁰Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets; and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah.
³¹Behold, I am against thee, proud one, saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I visit thee:
³²and the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; yea, I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him. (Jer. 50:21‑32)

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Ezek. 39:17‑20• ¹⁷And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Speak unto the birds of every wing, and to every beast of the field, Gather yourselves together and come, assemble yourselves on every side to my sacrifice which I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
¹⁸Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, and of bullocks, all of them fatted beasts of Bashan.
¹⁹And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and drink blood till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I sacrifice for you.
²⁰And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 39:17‑20)

• The Medo-Persian kingdom, is set forth by the second....The symbol of a bear will indicate its ferocious character, and raising itself up on one side calls attention to the fact that, composed at the outset of the two kingdoms of the Medes and Persians, one of these —the latter under Cyrus—obtained the superiority, even if it did not absorb the other. (“Daniel 7” by E. Dennett)

• “Arise, devour much flesh,” evidently points to the distinguishing feature of this empire, namely, its rapacity—swallowing up, devouring, as it were, kingdom after kingdom. (“Daniel 7” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And behold, another beast, a second, like unto a bear, and it raised up itself on one side; and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and they said thus unto it: Arise, devour much flesh.

W. Kelly Translation

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And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it, between the teeth of it; and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)