Daniel 7:1

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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Babylon was the imperial capital where Daniel lived in exile under Belshazzar, setting the vision within the power of a pagan world empire. The Great Sea, usually the Mediterranean, symbolizes the nations from which the successive beastly kingdoms of Daniel’s vision arise.

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Daniel 7:1 mentions Babylon and Great Sea.

Photo of Babylon — Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky