Daniel 8 (NET)

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Daniel 8:1¹In the third year of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 10:2 Dan 10:7 Dan 11:4 Dan 7:1 Dan 7:15 Dan 7:28 Dan 8:15 Dan 9:2

Daniel 8:2²In this vision I saw myself in Susa the citadel, which is located in the province of Elam. In the vision I saw myself at the Ulai Canal.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Esth 1:2 Neh 1:1 Esth 2:8 Ezek 32:24 Gen 10:22 Gen 14:1 Jer 25:25 Dan 7:15 Dan 7:2 Dan 8:3

Daniel 8:3³I looked up and saw a ram with two horns standing at the canal. Its two horns were both long, but one was longer than the other. The longer one was coming up after the shorter one.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:20 Dan 10:5 1 Chr 21:16 Dan 2:39 Dan 5:31 Dan 6:28 Dan 7:5 Esth 1:3 Ezra 1:2 Ezra 4:5

Daniel 8:4⁴I saw that the ram was butting westward, northward, and southward. No animal was able to stand before it, and there was none who could deliver from its power. It did as it pleased and acted arrogantly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 11:16 Dan 11:36 Dan 8:7 Dan 11:2-3 Dan 5:19 Dan 5:30 Dan 7:5 Deut 33:17 Ezek 34:21 Isa 10:13-14

Daniel 8:5⁵While I was contemplating all this, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of all the land without touching the ground. This goat had a conspicuous horn between its eyes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:21 Dan 11:3 Dan 8:8 Dan 2:32 Dan 2:39 Dan 7:6

Daniel 8:6⁶It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Daniel 8:7⁷I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram and struck it and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it. The goat hurled the ram to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 11:11 Dan 7:7 Josh 8:20 Lev 26:37

Daniel 8:8⁸The male goat acted even more arrogantly. But no sooner had the large horn become strong than it was broken, and there arose four conspicuous horns in its place, extending toward the four winds of the sky.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 7:2 Rev 7:1 Dan 5:20 Dan 8:22 Dan 8:5 2 Chr 26:16 Dan 11:4 Dan 4:31 Dan 7:6 Deut 31:20

Daniel 8:9⁹From one of them came a small horn, but it grew to be very great toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 11:16 Dan 7:8 Ezek 20:15 Ezek 20:6 Ps 48:2 Dan 11:21 Dan 11:25-45 Dan 7:20-26 Dan 8:23-24 Jer 3:19

Daniel 8:10¹⁰It grew so great it reached the army of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars to the ground, where it trampled them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 14:13 Rev 12:4 Dan 7:7 Dan 8:7 Dan 11:28 Dan 11:33-36 Dan 11:30 Dan 8:24-25

Daniel 8:11¹¹It also acted arrogantly against the Prince of the army, from whom the daily sacrifice was removed and whose sanctuary was thrown down.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 12:11 Rev 13:5-7 Dan 11:31 Dan 8:25 Ezek 46:14 2 Kgs 19:22-23 Isa 37:23 Rev 17:14 2 Chr 32:15-22 Dan 11:36-37

Daniel 8:12¹²The army was given over, along with the daily sacrifice, in the course of his sinful rebellion. It hurled truth to the ground and enjoyed success.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:14 Jer 12:1 2 Thess 2:10-12 Dan 11:28 Dan 11:31-36 Rev 13:11-17 Rev 13:7 1 Sam 23:9 Dan 8:4 Job 12:6

Daniel 8:13¹³Then I heard a holy one speaking. Another holy one said to the one who was speaking, “To what period of time does the vision pertain—this vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the destructive act of rebellion and the giving over of both the sanctuary and army to be trampled?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 11:2 Dan 9:27 Luke 21:24 Rev 6:10 Dan 11:31 Dan 4:13 1 Pet 1:12 1 Thess 3:13 Heb 10:29 Isa 6:11

Daniel 8:14¹⁴He said to me, “To 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be put right again.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 12:7 Dan 7:25 Rev 11:2-3 Dan 12:11 Isa 45:25 Rev 12:14 Dan 8:26 Isa 1:27 Rev 13:5 Rev 11:15

Daniel 8:15¹⁵While I, Daniel, was watching the vision, I sought to understand it. Now one who appeared to be a man was standing before me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 10:16 1 Pet 1:10-11 Dan 10:18 Rev 1:13 Dan 10:5 Dan 12:8 Dan 7:13 Dan 7:16-19 Dan 7:28-8:1 Ezek 1:26-28

Daniel 8:16¹⁶Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out, “Gabriel, enable this person to understand the vision.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 1:19 Luke 1:26 Dan 12:5-7 Dan 8:2 Heb 1:14 Rev 22:16 Acts 10:13 Acts 9:7 Dan 10:11-12 Dan 10:14

Daniel 8:17¹⁷So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. Then he said to me, “Understand, son of man, that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:19 Dan 12:4 Dan 11:35-36 Dan 11:40 Dan 12:13 Hab 2:3 Rev 1:17 Ezek 1:28-2:1 Rev 22:8 Dan 10:11

Daniel 8:18¹⁸As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 10:18 Dan 10:16 Ezek 2:2 Luke 9:32 Dan 10:8-10 Acts 26:6 Dan 8:17 Dan 8:27 Gen 15:12 Job 4:13

Daniel 8:19¹⁹Then he said, “I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:3 Dan 11:27 Dan 8:15-17 Rev 17:17 Dan 11:35-36 Dan 12:7-8 Dan 8:23 Dan 9:26-27 Rev 1:1 Rev 10:7

Daniel 8:20²⁰The ram that you saw with the two horns stands for the kings of Media and Persia.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:3 Dan 11:1-2

Daniel 8:21²¹The male goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 10:20 Dan 11:3 Dan 8:5-8

Daniel 8:22²²The horn that was broken and in whose place there arose four others stands for four kingdoms that will arise from his nation, though they will not have his strength.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 11:4 Dan 8:3 Dan 8:8

Daniel 8:23²³Toward the end of their rule, when rebellious acts are complete, a rash and deceitful king will arise.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:9-11 Rev 13:11-14 Rev 19:20 1 Tim 4:1 Dan 8:9-12 Dan 7:11 Dan 7:20 Dan 7:8 Dan 7:25 Dan 8:25

Daniel 8:24²⁴His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. He will be successful in what he undertakes. He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:12 Dan 11:31-36 Dan 12:7 Dan 7:25 Rev 13:3-10 Rev 17:17 Dan 8:10 Rev 17:12-13 Rev 17:6 Rev 19:2

Daniel 8:25²⁵By his treachery he will succeed through deceit. He will have an arrogant attitude, and he will destroy many who are unaware of his schemes. He will rise up against the Prince of princes, yet he will be broken apart—but not by human agency.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:11 Dan 11:32-33 Rev 17:14 Job 34:20 Dan 11:21-25 Rev 19:19-21 Dan 11:36-37 Dan 11:45 Dan 2:34-35 Dan 2:44-45

Daniel 8:26²⁶The vision of the evenings and mornings that was told to you is correct. But you should seal up the vision, for it refers to a time many days from now.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 10:1 Dan 12:9 Dan 10:14 Dan 12:4 Ezek 12:27 Rev 22:10 Dan 8:11-15 Hos 3:3-4 Isa 24:22 Rev 10:4

Daniel 8:27²⁷I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up and again carried out the king’s business. But I was astonished at the vision, and there was no one to explain it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 7:28 Hab 3:16 1 Sam 3:15 Dan 10:16 Dan 10:8 Dan 2:48-49 Dan 5:14 Dan 6:2-3 Dan 8:2 Dan 8:7

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