Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.

Bible References

Waxed

Deuteronomy 31:20
For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors -- one flowing with milk and honey -- and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.
Esther 9:4
Mordecai was of high rank in the king's palace, and word about him was spreading throughout all the provinces. His influence continued to become greater and greater.
Jeremiah 5:27
Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
Ezekiel 16:7
I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

When

Daniel 4:31
While these words were still on the king's lips, a voice came down from heaven: "It is hereby announced to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you!
Daniel 5:20
And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.
2 Chronicles 26:16
But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He disobeyed the Lord his God. He entered the Lord's temple to offer incense on the incense altar.
Psalm 82:6
I thought, 'You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.'
Ezekiel 28:9
Will you still say, "I am a god," before the one who kills you -- though you are a man and not a god -- when you are in the power of those who wound you?

Toward

Daniel 7:2
Daniel explained: "I was watching in my vision during the night as the four winds of the sky were stirring up the great sea.
Matthew 24:31
And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mark 13:27
Then he will send angels and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
Revelation 7:1
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

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