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this is the interpretation: In the last period the Most High will raise up three kings, and he will renew many things in it, and they will rule the earth
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and greatly oppress those who dwell on it, more than all the rest who were before them. Therefore, they are called the heads of the eagle,
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because they will sum up its acts of impiety and complete its last deeds.
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“As for your seeing the biggest head disappear, one of the kings will die on his bed, though in agonies.
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As to the two who are left, the sword will destroy them.