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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, and 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, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. (Dan. 2:39)

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Dan. 8:3• ³Then 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; but 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 the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and 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 that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast 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; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. (Dan. 8:4)

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Dan. 11:2• ²And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. (Dan. 11:2)

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

Isa. 13:17‑18• ¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
¹⁸Their bows also 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, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. (Isa. 56:9)

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Jer. 50:21‑32• ²¹Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
²²A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
²⁴I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.
²⁵The Lord hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
²⁶Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, 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 the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.
²⁹Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
³⁰Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.
³¹Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
³²And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. (Jer. 50:21‑32)

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Ezek. 39:17‑20• ¹⁷And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even 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, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
¹⁹And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
²⁰Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God. (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.