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Daniel 10:4
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Daniel is speaking in the first person, with no addressee named in the verse. On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, he is standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris, after Daniel 10:3 and before Daniel 10:5.
The words — “Yom” (day) and “ha.Yi.ti” (I was) carry the verse’s date and first-person presence.
The thread — The Tigris is named in Genesis 2:14 as a river running along the east side of Assyria. Ezekiel 1:3 similarly places a prophetic word by the River Keb.
Why it lands — It asks the reader to hold the account in a specific time and place before the appearance in Daniel 10:5. The date, river, and Daniel’s standing are the concrete frame for what follows.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
Cross-references
- Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Ezekiel 1:3 the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
- Daniel 8:2 And in the vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa, in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision that I was beside the Ulai Canal.