The four and twentieth day. — After the end of his three weeks’ fast the prophet was upon the bank of the Tigris, where he saw the following vision. Hiddekel is the Accadian name of the river. (Comp. Genesis 2:14.) “Great river” is an epithet usually applied to the river Euphrates, as Genesis 15:18. Daniel was here in the body, and not only in the spirit, as Daniel 8:2.
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Daniel 10:4
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;