In 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.
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Daniel 7:1 in context
Daniel 7:1–4
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In 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.
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Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.
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Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.
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“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.
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