Bible Strands
Daniel 8:6
He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with furious power.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator (Daniel) describes a vision of a goat attacking a ram during the prophetic sequence initiated in Daniel 8:5. The scene occurs within the apocalyptic landscape of the vision, positioned between the goat’s emergence and its subsequent destruction of the ram.
The words — The text highlights בַּעַל־הַקְּרָנַיִם (ba‘al-haqqrānayim), literally “the possessor of the two horns,” and עֹמֵד (‘omed), “standing,” which anchors the ram’s position beside the canal before the assault.
The thread — The two-horned ram motif is identified in Daniel 8:20, and the horn-conflict pattern recurs in Daniel 7:8 and Revelation 13:1.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of a violent, one-sided confrontation that leaves the ram powerless, requiring the reader to track how divine judgment unfolds through successive earthly powers.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.