Daniel 8:4

Louis Segond

Je vis le bélier qui frappait de ses cornes à l'occident, au septentrion et au midi; aucun animal ne pouvait lui résister, et il n'y avait personne pour délivrer ses victimes; il faisait ce qu'il voulait, et il devint puissant.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Je vis ce b�lier heurtant des cornes contre l'Occident, et contre l'Aquilon, et contre le Midi, et pas une b�te ne pouvait subsister devant lui, et il n'y avait personne qui lui p�t rien �ter, mais il agissait selon sa volont�, et devenait grand.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et je vis le b�lier qui frappait de ses cornes vers l'occident, vers le nord et vers le midi; et aucune b�te ne pouvait subsister devant lui, et il n'y avait personne qui d�livr�t de sa puissance; mais il faisait tout ce qu'il voulait, et il devint grand.

Darby's French Translation
Je vis le b�lier heurtant vers l'occident, et vers le nord, et vers le midi; et aucune b�te ne pouvait tenir devant lui, et il n'y avait personne qui p�t d�livrer de sa main; et il fit selon son gr�, et devint grand.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pushing: Daniel 5:30, Daniel 7:5, Daniel 11:2, Isaiah 45:1-5, Jeremiah 50:1 - Jeremiah 51:64

neither: Daniel 8:7, Job 10:7, Psalms 7:2, Psalms 50:22, Micah 5:8

but: Daniel 5:19, Daniel 11:3, Daniel 11:16, Daniel 11:36, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:2 - Who can stand Psalms 44:5 - push Jeremiah 51:28 - the kings Daniel 2:32 - breast Daniel 2:39 - another kingdom Daniel 5:28 - Thy Daniel 8:12 - and it practiced

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward,.... That is, with his horns, as rams do; these kingdoms using all their power and strength, wealth and riches, in fighting with and subduing nations, and pushing on their conquests in all parts here mentioned; to the west, Babylon, Syria, Asia, and part of Greece; to the north, Iberia, Albania, Armenia, Scythia, Colchis, and the inhabitants of the Caspian sea; and to the south, Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, and India; all which places were conquered by Cyrus and his successors. No mention is made of the east, because this ram stood in the east, facing the west; and at the right and left were the north and south; and so Cyrus is said to come from the east, Isaiah 46:11.

So that no beast might stand before him: no, not the first beast, the Babylonian monarchy, which; fell into the hands of Cyrus; nor any other king or kingdom he and his successors fought against:

neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; or power; Croesus, the rich king of Lydia, and other allies of the king of Babylon, assisted him against Cyrus, and endeavoured to prevent his falling into his hands, but all in vain:

but he did according to his will, and became great; none being able to oppose him, he carried his arms where he pleased, and imposed what tribute he thought fit, and obliged them to do whatever was his will; and so became great in power and dignity, in riches and wealth: this monarchy was very large and extensive, and very rich and wealthy, in the times of Cyrus and his successors; and especially in the times of Darius, the last monarch of it, conquered by Alexander, who is described as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward - Denoting the conquests of the united kingdom. The east is not mentioned, for none of the conquests of the Medo-Persian empire extended in that direction: Yet nothing could better express the conquests actually made by the Medo-Persian empire than this representation. On the west the conquests embraced Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Asia Minor; on the north, Colchis, Armenia, Iberia, and the regions around the Caspian Sea; and on the south, Palestine, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Lybia. - Lengerke. This Medo-Persian power is represented as coming from the east. Isaiah 41:2 : “who raised up the righteous man from the east, etc.” Isaiah 46:11 : “calling a ravenous bird from the east, etc.”

He did according to his will, and became great - This expresses well also the character of the Medo-Persian empire. It extended over a great part of the known world, subduing to itself a large portion of the earth. In its early conquests it met with no successful opposition, nor was it stayed until it was subdued by Greece - as at Leuctra and Marathon, and then as it was finally overthrown by Alexander the Great.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 8:4. I saw the ram pushing westward — The Persians, who are signified by the ram, as well as their founder Cyrus, pushed their conquests west, north and south. The principal theatre of their wars, says Calmet, was against the SCYTHIANS, northward; against the GREEKS, westward; and against the EGYPTIANS, southward.

He did according to his will — There was no other nation at that time that could stay the progress of the Persian arms.