By what was the second kingdom symbolized?

Answer

"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 unto it, Arise, devour much flesh!' Verse 5.
NOTE-"This was the Medo-Persian Empire, represented here under the symbol. the bear. . . .
The Medes and Persians are compared to a bear on account of their cruelty and thirst after blood, a bear
being a most voracious and cruel animal." Adam Clarke, on Dan. 7: 5.
 


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19. Upon returning from a feast at Jerusalem how came Joseph and Mary to lose Jesus when He was twelve years old?
19. In what prophetic language was the varying strength of the ten kingdoms of the divided empire indicated?
When Moses came down from Sinai, what did he see?
21. What shows that the new, or second, covenant and the Abrahamic covenant are virtually the same?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle