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Daniel 7:5
Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Daniel records a visionary sequence immediately following the first beast’s transformation, describing the second beast’s sudden appearance as part of a prophetic dream.
The words — חֵיוָה (chei.Vah) denotes a wild beast, while לְ/דֹב (le./Do) identifies it specifically as a bear.
The thread — The vision continues the beast sequence in Daniel 7:4 and 7:6, while bear imagery appears in 2 Kings 2:24 and Proverbs 17:12, and successive kingdoms are outlined in Daniel 2:39.
Why it lands — The text commands the beast to rise and devour flesh, requiring the reader to confront the violent expansion of empires under divine allowance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Cross-references
- Daniel 2:39 But after you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule the whole earth.
- 2 Kings 2:24 Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
- Proverbs 17:12 It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.
- Isaiah 13:17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
- Isaiah 56:9 Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
- Jeremiah 50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
- Hosea 13:8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.
- Ezekiel 39:17 And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
- Daniel 5:28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
- Daniel 8:3 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.