2 Esdras 12:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁰ Eight kings shall arise in it, whose times shall be short and their years swift; ²¹ two of them shall perish when the middle of its time draws near; and four shall be kept for the time when its end approaches, but two shall be kept until the end.

²² ‘As for your seeing three heads at rest, this is the interpretation: