And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea.

four.

Daniel 7:17 These four great beasts, are four kingdoms, which shall arise out of the earth.

) called [beasts] from their tyranny and oppression, emerging from the wars and commotions of the world.

Daniel 2:32,33,37-40 The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass. . . .

Zechariah 6:1-8 And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four chariots came out from the midst of two mountains: and the mountains were mountains of brass. . . .

beasts.

Daniel 7:4-8,17 The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her. . . .

Psalm 76:4 Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.

Ezekiel 19:3-8 And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men. . . .

Revelation 13:1 And I saw a beast coming up out the sea, having seven heads and ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads, names of blasphemy.