New American Standard Bible 1995
Daniel 2:39-45
39After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. 40Then there will be a 1fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces. 41In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with 2common clay. 42As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. 43And in that you saw the iron mixed with 3common clay, they will combine with one another 4in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery. 44In the days of those kings the 5God of heaven will 6set up a 7kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be 8left for another people; it will 9crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45Inasmuch as you saw that a 10stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the 11great God has made known to the king what 12will take place 13in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
Notes
- 1. Daniel 2:40 Dan 7:23 ↩
- 2. Daniel 2:41 Lit clay of mud ↩
- 3. Daniel 2:43 Lit clay of mud ↩
- 4. Daniel 2:43 Or with ↩
- 5. Daniel 2:44 Dan 2:28, 37 ↩
- 6. Daniel 2:44 Is 9:6, 7 ↩
- 7. Daniel 2:44 Ps 145:13; Ezek 37:25; Dan 4:3, 34; 6:26; 7:14, 27; Mic 4:7; Luke 1:32, 33 ↩
- 8. Daniel 2:44 Or passed on to ↩
- 9. Daniel 2:44 Ps 2:9; Is 60:12; Dan 2:34, 35 ↩
- 10. Daniel 2:45 Dan 2:34 ↩
- 11. Daniel 2:45 Deut 10:17; 2 Sam 7:22; Ps 48:1; Jer 32:18, 19; Dan 2:29; Mal 1:11 ↩
- 12. Daniel 2:45 Gen 41:28, 32 ↩
- 13. Daniel 2:45 Lit after this ↩
Commentaries on Daniel 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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