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Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Daniel 7:3 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
  • BSB Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:
  • NKJV And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.
  • NASB And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another.
  • NLT Then four huge beasts came up out of the water, each different from the others.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 8

  • Rev 13:1Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
  • Dan 7:17These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
  • Dan 2:32–33As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
  • Dan 7:4–8The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.
  • Ezek 19:3–8She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
  • Zech 6:1–8Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
  • Ps 76:4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
  • Dan 2:37–40You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

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Christ at the center

Daniel sees the stone cut without hands that shatters the kingdoms, and 'one like a son of man' given everlasting dominion — titles and visions Jesus claims as his own.

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