Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 7:5

5 And behold, another beast, a second like to a bear , and it raised up it self 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.

Viz ▪ The Medes and Persians, a fierce, grim, ravenous creature, and barbarously cruel, especially the Mountainous part▪ as of Caucasus, Armenia and Media by the Caspian Sea near the Tartars, and that which borders upon the Mogul, the Vsbeques, and the Sasbuts; read Isa. 13.17, 18. Ier. 51.48, 50 called spoilers. See ver. 11. &c. Thus God sent in the Northern Bears upon Babylon to devour flesh. See how God calls them against Babylon, Ier. 51.20, 21, 22, 23.27, 28. he reckons Ararat, Nenini, and Ashkenas, and the Medes, i. e. Armenia, Parthia, Hyrcania, &c, the rough Northern hungrey Bears.

On one side, i. e. the North side; for the Mede first arose and sent to Cyrus the Persian to come in and assist him against the Assyrian, and made him General.

Several of the Babylonian Subjects revolted from the Babylonian (and all these made the three Ribs) as the Hyrcanians, and Gobrias.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] it raised [illegible: 2 letters] dominion.; [illegible: 2 letters]hon. lib. 4. [illegible: 1 letter]3. & 77.