Daniel 8:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

English Standard Version 2016

²¹ And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.

Daniel 8:21 Cross References

Daniel 10:20

Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I go forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come.

Daniel 11:2

And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

Daniel 11:3

And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

Daniel 2:39

And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

Daniel 7:6

After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Daniel 8:20

The ram which thou sawest that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 8:22

And as for that which was broken, in the place whereof four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

Zechariah 9:13

For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.