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Daniel 8:1
In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, subsequent to the one that had appeared to me earlier.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Daniel addresses his recorded audience, marking the third year of Belshazzar’s reign as the moment when a new vision follows a prior revelation. The narrator positions himself as the sole recipient of this sequential prophetic encounter.
The words — חָזוֹן (chazon) translates literally as "vision," and נִרְאָה (nir'ah) means "it appeared," anchoring the event as a direct visual manifestation rather than a dream. These terms establish the mode of divine communication in this passage.
The thread — The pattern of dated prophetic visions and the narrator’s troubled response reappears in Daniel 7:1, Daniel 7:15, and Daniel 7:28. These passages track the same author’s method of recording sequential revelations and his internal reaction to them.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to recognize that prophetic revelation is chronological and cumulative, demanding careful tracking of divine timing. It asks the reader to prepare for the next vision by acknowledging God'sI have to answer now.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.
Cross-references
- Daniel 7:1 In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.
- Daniel 7:15 I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit, and the visions in my mind alarmed me.
- Daniel 7:28 Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”
- Daniel 8:15 While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
- Daniel 9:2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
- Daniel 10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
- Daniel 10:7 Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.
- Daniel 11:4 But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.