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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 8:4 - 8:4
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ram pushing westward - Persia conquered westward Babylon, Mesopotamia, Syria, Asia Minor.
northward - Colchis, Armenia, Iberia, and the dwellers on the Caspian Sea.
southward - Judea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya; also India, under Darius. He does not say eastward, for the Persians themselves came from the east (Isa 46:11).
did according to his will - (Dan 11:3, Dan 11:16; compare Dan 5:19).