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Daniel 8:3

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I lifted: Daniel 10:5; Numbers 24:2; Joshua 5:13; 1 Chronicles 21:16; Zechariah 1:18, Zechariah 2:1, Zechariah 5:1, Zechariah 5:5, Zechariah 5:9, Zechariah 6:1

a ram: The Medo-Persian empire, of which a ram was the ensign; and a ram's head with horns, one higher than the other, is still to be seen on the ruins of Persepolis. Daniel 8:20, Daniel 2:39, Daniel 7:5

one: Media was the more ancient kingdom; but Persia, after Cyrus, was the most considerable. Daniel 5:31, Daniel 6:28; Ezra 1:2, Ezra 4:5; Esther 1:3; Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 44:28; Jeremiah 51:11

the other: Heb. the second

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