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III. Israel in relation to the Gentiles: God's program for Israel chs. 8--12 >
A. Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat ch. 8 >
1. The setting of the vision 8:1
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The third year of Belshazzar was about 551 B.C., two years after the vision in chapter 7 and about 12 years before the events of chapter 5. Daniel was then living within the kingdom of Neo-Babylonia, the first beast of chapter 7. Apparently this was not a dream as well as a vision (7:1) but just a vision. Probably it came to Daniel during the daytime. The vision that appeared to Daniel previously refers to the one in chapter 7.
