OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 8:7

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I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.

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Verse 7. Hand. He routed all the forces of his enemy ( Bible.) at the Granicus, at Issus; and at Gaugamela, ( Calmet.) or Arbela, Darius escaped, but was slain by his own servants. Bible.—The clemency of the conqueror towards the fallen royal family is not here specified. Calmet.

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