Daniel 7:1

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon -On the character and reign of Belshazzar, see Introduction toDaniel 5:0Section II. He was the last of the kings of Babylon, and this fact may cast some light on the disclosures made in the dream. Daniel had a dream -Margin, as in Hebrew, saw. He saw a series of events in vision when he was asleep. The dream refers to that representation, and was of such a nature that it was proper to speak of it as if he saw it. Compare the notes atDaniel 2:1. And visions of his head upon his bed -See the notes atDaniel 4:5. Then he wrote the dream -He made a record of it at the time.