Daniel’s Vision of Four Beasts
1 Earlier, during the first year of King Belshazzar’s reign in Babylon,7:1 The first year of Belshazzar’s reign (who was co-regent with his father, Nabonidus) was 556 b.c. (or perhaps as late as 553 b.c.). Daniel had a dream and saw visions as he lay in his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is what he saw.