Daniel 7:11,Daniel 7:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 7:11-12

Daniel 7:11-12. I beheld then Chaldee, חזה הוית , I was attentive, spectabam attentus, I beheld attentively, as Grotius renders it; because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake See on Daniel 7:25. I was desirous of knowing, and looked carefully to see what would be the end of this matter, more particularly on account of the arrogant and boasting words which the horn spake. I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed This signified, that no other... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Daniel 7:1-14

7:1-12:13 DANIEL’S VISIONSAlthough the visions collected in this section of the book are in approximate chronological order, there is no obvious connection leading one on to the next. Each vision has a separate and distinct message.A vision of four beasts (7:1-14)In the first vision (whose chronological position would be between Chapters 4 and 5), Daniel saw a severe storm stirring up the sea, then, coming up out of the raging waters, four strange beasts. The meaning (partly explained later in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Daniel 7:11

the horn spake = the horn kept speaking. the beast. At length we learn who "the (little) horn" is See note on Daniel 7:8 and Revelation 19:20 . the burning flame. Compare 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:8 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Daniel 7:11

Daniel 7:11. I beheld then because of the voice, &c.— The beast will be destroyed, because of the great words which the horn spake. The destruction of the beast will be the destruction of the horn also; and consequently the horn is a part of the fourth beast, or of the Roman empire. Bishop Newton. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 7:11

11. Here is set forth the execution on earth of the judgment pronounced in the unseen heavenly court of judicature (Daniel 7:9; Daniel 7:10). body . . . given to . . . flame— (Revelation 19:20). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 7:9-12

2. The Ancient of Days and the destruction of the fourth beast 7:9-12 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 7:11

The return to prose language signals the shift in Daniel’s observation from heaven to earth, and the content of the revelation confirms this change. The boastful words of "the horn" (Daniel 7:8) kept attracting Daniel’s attention. God passed judgment on the fourth beast and destroyed it along with all its horns (cf. Luke 21:24-27; Revelation 19:20). Similarly, the stone cut out without hands crushed the toes of the image in chapter 2-suddenly and violently. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 7:1-28

The Vision of the Four BeastsIn the first year of Belshazzar Daniel sees in a dream four beasts rising out of the sea (Daniel 7:1-3). The first is like a lion, with eagle’s wings (Daniel 7:4), the second like a bear (Daniel 7:5), the third like a leopard (Daniel 7:6), while the fourth is a unique and ferocious monster with ten horns (Daniel 7:7), Among the horns of the fourth beast there comes up a little horn with human eyes, which displaces three of the other ten, and carries itself proudly... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 7:11

(11) Because of . . .—The blasphemy uttered by the little horn was the cause of the judgment, and being such, it attracted Daniel’s attention. We might have expected that the crowning scene of this vision would have been the uprooting of the little horn and the complete destruction of it, but it appears that the blaspheming spirit with which it was inspired issued from the fourth monster, which “was slain and burned.”Burning flame.—Such is the doctrine of final retribution, as revealed to... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 7:1-28

Daniel 7:1 I am amusing myself with thinking of the prophecy of Daniel as a sort of allegory. All those monstrous, 'rombustical' beasts with their horns the horn with eyes and a mouth speaking proud things, and the little horn that waxed rebellious and stamped on the stars, seem like my passions and vain fancies, which are to be knocked down one after another until all is subdued with a universal kingdom over which the Ancient of Days presides the spirit of Love the Catholicism of the universe... read more