In the first year of Belshazzar, &c. The prophet, having related some remarkable passages concerning himself and his brethren in captivity, and having given proof of his supernatural illumination in interpreting other men's dreams, proceeds to give an account of his own visions; and thereupon goes back to the first year of Belshazzar's reign, which was seventeen years before the history contained in the last chapter. This vision concerns the same events with those referred to in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, chap. 2., with some enlargements and additions, and different images.
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Daniel 7:1
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel hada a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.