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And foure great beastes came vp from the sea, diuers one from another.

After this I beheld, and loe, another like a Leopard, which had vpon the backe of it foure wings of a foule, the beast had also foure heads, and dominion was giuen to it.

These great beasts, which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Therefore the hee goate waxed very great, and when he was strong, the great horne was broken: and for it came vp foure notable ones, toward the foure windes of heauen.

1611 marginal noteCha.11.4

Now that being broken, whereas foure stood vp for it, foure kingdomes shall stand vp out of the nation, but not in his power.

And in the foure and twentieth day of the first moneth, as I was by the side of the great riuer, which is Hiddekel:

1611 marginal noteGen.2.14.

And when he shall stand vp, his kingdome shall be broken, and shall be diuided toward the foure winds of heauen; and not to his posteritie, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdome shall be pluckt vp, euen for others besides those.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they haue threshed Gilead, with threshing instruments of yron.

1611 marginal noteOr, he for foure.

1611 marginal noteOr, conuert it, or let it be quiet. And so ver. 6. &c.

¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Gaza, and for foure I will not turne away the punishment thereof: because they caried away captiue the whole captiuitie, to deliuer them vp to Edom.

1611 marginal noteOr, caried them away with an entire captiuitie.

1611 marginal note2.Chro. 28.18.

¶ Thus saith the LORD, For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for foure I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because they deliuered vp the whole captiuitie to Edom, and remembred not the brotherly couenant.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the couenant of brethren.