Daniel 10:4

Dan 10:4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which [is] Hiddekel;

Ver. 4. And on the four and twentieth of the first month. ] The day is thus noted, because the matters here revealed were most memorable.

As I was by the side of the great river. ] Meditating likely, because the city was full of noise and tumult, and praying. as Act 16:13 Broughton giveth this reason, because Seleucus Nicator, founder of the Seleucidae, much spoken of in the ensuing vision, built his chief city upon this river.

Which is Hiddekel, ] i.e., Sharp swift; called also Tigris, from the swiftest of all beasts, the tiger; but Curtius and Pliny a say, that Tigris in the Median language signifieth an arrow. Here Daniel was personally present, and not visionally only. See Daniel 10:7 .

a Plin, lib. vi. cap. 7.