Eagle and Wings

Eagle = King/Nation

Wings = Kingdom

Greek Empire

After Alexander the Great of the Greek Empire died, his kingdom was divided into four kingdoms. Daniel equates the four kingdoms of the Greek Empire with four wings.

Dan. 7:6 After this I beheld, and, lo, another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a bird; the beast had also four heads; and language was given to it.

Dan. 8:8 And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of heaven.
Dan. 8:21-22 And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. And as for that which was broken, in the place whereof four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

Dan. 11:3-4 And a mighty king [the king of Greece] shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion wherewith he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.

King of Babylon

Daniel equates the king of Babylon to an animal that is like a lion with eagle’s wings.

Daniel equates the removal of the wings from the lion to the removal of the kingdom from the king of Babylon.

Dan. 7:4 The first was like a lion [king of Babylon], and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.
Dan. 4:22 it is thou, O king [Nebuchadnezzar], that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Dan. 4:28-33 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee: and thou shalt be driven from men; and they dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over thee; until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Jeremiah equates the king of Babylon spreading his kingdom against other nations to an eagle spreading its wings against other nations.

Jer. 48:40-42 For thus saith the Lrd: Behold, he [king of Babylon] shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lrd.

Jer. 49:22 Behold, he [king of Babylon] shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Ezek. 17:3 and say, Thus saith the Lrd Gd: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Ezek. 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Hab. 1:6-8 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans [Babylonians], that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.

Pharaoh

Ezekiel equates Pharaoh and his great army to an eagle with great wings.

Ezek. 17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
Ezek. 17:15-17 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape? As I live, saith the Ld Gd, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

King of Assyria

Hosea equates the king of Assyria with an eagle.

Hos. 8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of the Lrd, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. They shall cry unto me, My Gd, we Israel know thee. Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy [king of Assyria] shall pursue him.

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The Bible equates Gd bringing Israel out of Egypt and taking care of them with carrying them on eagles’ wings.

Ex. 19:3-4 And Moses went up unto Gd, and the Lrd called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

Deut. 32:9-14 For the Lrd‘s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions. The Lrd alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he fed him the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock; Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drank wine.

Deut. 28:49 The Lrd will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;