KJV King James Version
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:
Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
and four great beasts are coming up from the sea, diverse one from another.
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum of the matters.
2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4 The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
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