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Daniel 2

Daniel 2:35

Daniel Interprets the Dream · Daniel 2:24–45
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Translations

Modern
Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Traditional
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Literal
Then they were crushed as one—the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like chaff from the threshing floors in summer, and the wind carried them away, and any trace of them could not be found. And the stone that struck the image became as a great mountain, and it filled all the earth.
Latin
Tunc contrita sunt pariter ferrum, testa, æs, argentum, et aurum, et redacta quasi in favillam æstivæ areæ, quæ rapta sunt vento, nullusque locus inventus est eis: lapis autem, qui percusserat statuam, factus est mons magnus, et implevit universam terram.

Interlinear

Hebrew
English
Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Notes

Daniel 2:35

filled the whole earth: Compare Genesis 1:28; Exodus 1:7; Matthew 28:18–20. This new kingdom would replace all other kingdoms.

Daniel 2:1–49

God gave a dream that showed the course of world history over the centuries, and Daniel explained its mysterious images. This dream and its interpretation highlight a key theme of the book—the certain final establishment of the kingdom of God as the ultimate goal of history (Daniel 2:44–45; 7:9–14, 26–27). This chapter also shows that paganism cannot understand the actions and plans of Israel’s God.

Daniel 2:1–6:28

This section contains stories and dreams from the experiences of Daniel and his friends in Babylon. Daniel used his special gift to understand dreams and showed great skill in the study of literature and science (Daniel 1:17). Chapter 2 provides a broad overview of history until God's kingdom appears (Daniel 2:44–49). Daniel 3–6 describes the fall of Babylon and the rise of Persia. History is moving toward a clear goal. That goal is the everlasting kingdom of God (Daniel 2:44; 4:2–3, 34; 6:26).

Events

Glossary

Apocalyptic Aramaic Book of Daniel Book of Jeremiah Chaff Dreams Foreknowledge Interpreter Minerals and Metals Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar Prophecy Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

Topics

Babylon: City of Prophecies Concerning Chaff: Figurative Church: Extent of, Predicted Church: Prophecies Concerning Prosperity of Clay: Symbolical Gentiles: Prophecies of the Conversion of Gold: Symbolical Jesus, the Christ: King Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning Universality of the Kingdom of Metals: Comparative Value of Mountains of the Church of God Persia: Prophecies Concerning Silver: Symbolical Summer: Threshing In The Church: Extent of, Predicted