Daniel 8:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ The male goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn between its eyes is the first king.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the shaggy and rough he-goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn between his eyes is the first king [who consolidated the whole realm, Alexander the Great].

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Common English Bible

²¹ The long-haired he-goat is the king of Greece, and the big horn between its eyes is the first king.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Furthermore, the he-goat among she-goats is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn, which was between his eyes, is the same one, the first king.

Daniel 8:21 Cross References

Daniel 11:3

Then a warrior king shall arise who shall rule with great dominion and take action as he pleases.

Daniel 10:20

Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I must return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I am through with him, the prince of Greece will come.

Daniel 8:20

As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 8:22

As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation but not with his power.

Daniel 11:2

“Now I will announce the truth to you. Three more kings shall arise in Persia. The fourth shall be far richer than all of them, and when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.

Daniel 2:39

After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over the whole earth.

Daniel 7:6

After this, as I watched, another appeared, like a leopard. The beast had four wings of a bird on its back and four heads, and dominion was given to it.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will arouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.