Quotes about Symbolism
Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’
- Daniel 7:5
Next, as I watched, another beast appeared. It was like a leopard, and on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.
- Daniel 7:6
While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- Daniel 7:8
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.
- Daniel 8:3
As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.
- Daniel 8:5
The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
- Daniel 8:20
The four horns that replaced the broken one represent four kingdoms that will rise from that nation, but will not have the same power.
- Daniel 8:22
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
- Hosea 2:12
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
- Amos 8:1
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
- Amos 8:2
All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
- Nahum 3:12
Then I looked up and saw four horns.
- Zechariah 1:18