Bible Dictionary: The Bear: The Kingdom of the Medes

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Daniel 7:5
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
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Concerning the Calamity that Befell Antiochus, King of Commagene. ...
... they were in of his keeping the kingdom; and his ... in plenty, he knew not how to bear
living out ... in great multitudes, and fell upon the Medes unexpectedly, and ...
/.../chapter 7 concerning the calamity.htm

Then after the Lioness, the Prophet Sees a Second Beast Like a ...
... sees a second beast like a bear, which denoted ... referred to three nations, the Persians,
Medes, and Babylonians ... showed most clearly how the kingdom of Alexander ...
/.../the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/piece xv then after the.htm

That the King of Babylon Repented of Making Jehoiachin King, and ...
... that immediately; he was afraid that he should bear him a ... oath, that he would certainly
keep the kingdom for him ... that then the Persians and the Medes should put ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 7 that the king.htm

Cyrus.
... The Persian power, prefigured by the silver shoulders, the bear and the ram, was
indeed nigh. ... Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xii cyrus.htm

On the Clause, and Shall Come in Glory to Judge the Quick and the ...
... Assyrians, and the second, that of the Medes and Persians ... also from thy afflictions
into the kingdom of heaven ... the Judge, as to whether thou shalt bear thy works ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xv on the clause.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... Abiruz, and Ariarma, while the men bear such names ... the farthest confines of Elam,
and the Medes between the ... It is probable that the kingdom founded by Deiokes ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

On Daniel. Iii. Scholia on Daniel.
... 5. "A second beast like to a bear." To represent the kingdom of the ... beast had the
dominion, and these others under it were the Medes, Assyrians, and ...
/.../the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/on daniel iii scholia on.htm

Concerning Nebuchadnezzar and his Successors and How their ...
... God will therefore break thy kingdom in pieces, and divide it among the Medes and
Persians ... that was terrible by the wild beasts, bid him bear this accident ...
/.../the antiquities of the jews/chapter 11 concerning nebuchadnezzar and.htm

We Arrive Now at a Branch of Our Subject Upon which the Lord's ...
... his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his ... When Babylon passed into the hands of
the Medes there was ... that is to be immediately succeeded by the kingdom of Him ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/we arrive now at a.htm

The Angel of the Everlasting Gospel.
... The message they bear is that of the everlasting gospel ... the good news of the glorious
kingdom of the ... to the faith, comprised "Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the angel of the everlasting.htm

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