Dan 8:6-7, 21 | JFB | e4.org | 6. standing before the river —Ulai. It was at the "river" Granicus that Alexander fought his first victorious battle against Darius, 334 B.C.

‏ Daniel 8:6-7

6. standing before the river—Ulai. It was at the "river" Granicus that Alexander fought his first victorious battle against Darius, 334 B.C.

7. moved with choler—Alexander represented the concentrated wrath of Greece against Persia for the Persian invasions of Greece; also for the Persian cruelties to Greeks, and Darius' attempts to seduce Alexander's soldiers to treachery [NEWTON].

stamped upon him—In 331 B.C. he defeated Darius Codomanus, and in 330 B.C. burned Persepolis and completed the conquest of Persia.

none . . . could deliver—Not the immense hosts of Persia could save it from the small army of Alexander (Ps 33:16).

‏ Daniel 8:21

21. the first king—Philip was king of Macedon before Alexander, but the latter was the first who, as a generalissimo of Greece, subdued the Persian empire.