Daniel 8:21

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the rough goat - See the notes at Daniel 8:5 . In Daniel 8:5 he is called a he-goat. Here the word rough or hairy - שׂעיר s'â‛ı̂yr -...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 8. The Vision of the Ram and the He-goat. This chapter gives an account of another vision which came to Daniel in Shushan. Near the river Ul...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

is . representeth. It is the Figure of speech Metaphor (App-6). king: or, kingdom. Grecia . Greece. is the first king . representeth the fi...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

By the word “Javan” the Hebrews designate not only the Greeks but the: Macedonians, and the whole of that tract which is divided by the Hellesp...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. The great horn that is between his e...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Vision of the Ram and the He-Goat In the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The king of Grecia (RV 'Greece')] 'King' is evidently used loosely for 'kingdom' (as in Daniel 7:17 ), since the kings are particularised as horns...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(20-22) See Notes on Daniel 8:3-8 .
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT This vision is dated as having occurred in the third year of Belshazzar; but it is not easy to see the significance of the...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Deliverance Is Sure Daniel 8:15-27 It does not fall within our province to go into the various fulfillments which have been assigned to t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Two years later, in the third year of king Belshazzar's reign, another vision came to Daniel. It was of a ram with two horns pushing westward, northw...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Who this fierce king points at, or what awful indignation is to take place at the time, when the latter kingdom shall come, and the transgressions ar...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia ,.... Including all the kings of it, from Alexander to the end of the Grecian monarchy; or rather the kingd...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the rough goat [is] the king of Grecia: and the great horn that [is] between his eyes [is] the first king. Ver. 21. And the rough goat. ] Hir...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The ram, &c., having two horns, are the kings , or kingdoms rather, of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king , or kingdom, of Gre...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Ram and Goat. B. C. 553....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The king of Grecia; of Javan, or Ion, or Joan, which properly is Asia the Less, which was inhabited by Javan, Genesis 10:2 , but spread over all...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Interpretation of the Vision. ‘The ram which you saw, which had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough he-goat i...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS SECT. XXVIII.—ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, OR THE SYRIAN LITTLE HORN (Chap. Daniel 8:1-27 ) This chapter presents to us another vision of Dan...
Scofield Reference Notes

first king That is, Alexander the Great.
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel 8:2 . At Shushan in the palace. Some think that Daniel was now ambassador at the Persian court. The Ulai or Eulæus, is a great and naviga...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The World-powers and Israel A glance a...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Daniel 8:1-27 THE RAM AND THE HE - GOAT This chapter marks the change from Aramaic to Hebrew. The character of the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Explanation of the Vision
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the rough goat, moving eastward across Asia Minor in victorious advance, is the king of Grecia, literally, "of Javan," Macedonia, Greece, and t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 10:20 ; Daniel 11:3 ; Daniel 8:5-7 ; Daniel 8:8

²¹ And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Related Commentaries of Daniel 8:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 8:21