Daniel 7:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bible Comments

In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, who was coregent with his father Nabonidus and the grandson and adopted son of Nebuchadnezzar, according to the most reliable secular accounts, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head, distinct images of his mind, quite distinct from confused pictures, upon his bed, that is, during the night; then, immediately or soon after it transpired, he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters, setting forth the main facts in due order and omitting matters of secondary importance, such as details pertaining to the appearance of the beasts.

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.