Daniel 8:1

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 8:1-14

Vision of the ram and the goat (8:1-14)This vision is easier to understand than that of the previous chapter (which was given to Daniel two years earlier; cf. 7:1; 8:1). This is partly because of the interpretation given to Daniel, and partly because of ancient records that show a remarkable correspondence between details of the vision and events as they actually happened.It was now almost 550 BC, and though Babylon was still the dominant power in the region, Persia had now begun to challenge... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 8:1

In the third year: 426 B.C. (see App-50 ). Daniel being eighty-seven. a vision . Like the vision in Daniel 7:0 , this also is complete in itself, but is necessary to contribute its proof of the unity of the book as a whole. This vision (and the rest of the book from here) is written in Hebrew; because its purpose is to show how Gentile dominion (of Daniel 2:0 ) specially concerns and affects Israel. after . Two years after. At the end of the Babylonian empire, for Belshazaar reigned little... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Daniel 8:1

This chapter stands as the irrefutable example of genuine predictive prophecy at its most excellent achievement. Nobody, but nobody, can deny the obvious meaning of this prophecy. Even the most outspoken critical enemies freely admit the true meaning of the chapter, as did Herbert T. Andrews. He wrote:"The interpretation of the vision which is given by Gabriel to Daniel is exceptionally clear, and leaves no manner of doubt that it refers to events of the Maccabean age. The ram with the two... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8:1

Daniel 8:1. In the third year of—king Belshazzar— This vision was about five hundred and fifty-three years before Christ. From chap. Dan 2:4 to this chapter, the prophesies are written in Chaldee. As they greatly concerned the Chaldeans, so they were published in that language. But the remaining prophesies are written in Hebrew, because they treat altogether of affairs subsequent to the time of the Chaldeans, and no ways relate to them, but principally to the church and people of God. See... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 8:1

1. vision—a higher kind of revelation than a dream. after that . . . at the first—that in Daniel 7:1. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 8:1

1. The setting of the vision 8:1The third year of Belshazzar was about 551 B.C., two years after the vision in chapter 7 and about 12 years before the events of chapter 5. Daniel was then living within the kingdom of Neo-Babylonia, the first beast of chapter 7. Apparently this was not a dream combined with a vision (Daniel 7:1), but just a vision. Probably it came to Daniel during the daytime. The vision that appeared to Daniel previously refers to the one in chapter 7. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 8:1-27

The Vision of the Ram and the He-GoatIn the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa (Daniel 8:1-2). He sees a two-homed ram which behaves aggressively for a time (Daniel 8:3-4), but is attacked and overthrown by a he-goat which comes rapidly from the w, (Daniel 8:5-7). The he-goat has a notable horn (Daniel 8:5), which is presently broken, and instead of which four others come up (Daniel 8:8). From one of these there springs a little... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 8:1

VIII(1) The Hebrew language is here resumed. The visions recorded in the remaining portion of the book having no connection with Babylon, the Chaldee dialect is dropped.Third year.—Most probably, not long before the end of his reign. This vision is supplementary to the one recorded in the preceding chapter, giving various details respecting the second and third empires there omitted, showing also how a “little horn” is to grow out of the third as well as out of the fourth empire.At the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 8:1-27

Daniel 8:2 In his Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. John Semple, minister of Carsphairn in Galloway, Patrick Walker tells how 'that night after his wife died, he spent the whole ensuing night in prayer and meditation in his garden. The next morning, one of his elders coming to see him, and lamenting his great loss and want of rest, he replied: "I declare I have not, all night, had one thought of the death of my wife, I have been so taken up in meditating on heavenly things. I... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Daniel 8:1-27

THE RAM AND THE HE-GOATThis vision is dated as having occurred in the third year of Belshazzar; but it is not easy to see the significance of the date, since it is almost exclusively occupied with the establishment of the Greek Empire, its dissolution into the kingdoms of the Diadochi, and the godless despotism of King Antiochus Epiphanes.The seer imagines himself to be in the palace of Shushan: "As I beheld I was in the castle of Shushan." It has been supposed by some that Daniel was really... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 8:1-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 8:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Daniel 8:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 8:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 8:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 8:1

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 8:1-27

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 8:1

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 8:1-27

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Daniel 8:1-27

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