Daniel 2:37-44
a king 1Kgs 4:24; Ezra 7:12; Isa 10:8, Isa 47:5; Jer 27:6-7; Ezek 26:7; Hos 8:10; Rev 1:5, Rev 17:14 the God Dan 4:25, Dan 4:32, Dan 5:18; 2Chr 36:23; Ezra 1:2; Prov 8:15; Jer 28:14; Rev 19:16 power Dan 4:3, Dan 4:34; Ps 62:11; Matt 6:13; John 19:11; Rev 4:11, Rev 5:12 the beasts Dan 4:21-22; Ps 50:10-11; Jer 27:5-7 Thou art The Chaldean monarchy, over which Nebuchadnezzar was the only king of note; in whose time it extended over Chaldea, Assyria, Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Libya. The head of gold represented its immense riches. Dan 2:32 another kingdom The empire of the Medes and Persians, whose union was denoted by the breast and two arms of silver; and which was established on the ruins of that of the Chaldeans on the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, bc 538. Dan 2:32, Dan 5:28-31, Dan 7:5, Dan 8:3-4, Dan 8:20, Dan 11:2; Isa 44:28, Isa 45:1-5 another third The empire of the Macedonians, or "brazen-coated Greeks," aptly denoted by the belly and thighs of brass, founded by Alexander the Great, who terminated the Persian monarchy by the overthrow of Darius Codomanus at Arbela, bc 331; Dan 2:32, Dan 7:6-7, Dan 7:23, Dan 8:5-14, Dan 10:20, Dan 11:3-20; Zech 6:3, Zech 6:6 the fourth The Roman empire, which comprised nearly the whole world. Dan 2:33, Dan 7:19-26, Dan 8:24, Dan 9:26, Dan 11:36-45; John 11:48 forasmuch Dan 7:7; Jer 15:12; Amos 1:3 the feet Dan 2:33-35, Dan 7:7, Dan 7:24; Rev 12:3, Rev 13:1, Rev 17:12 the toes Dan 7:24; Rev 13:1 broken or, brittle one to another Chal, this with this even The Roman empire became weakened by a mixture of barbarous nations, by the incursions of whom it was torn asunder about the fourth century after Christ, and at length divided into ten kingdoms, answering to the ten toes of the image. in the days Chal, in their days, That is, in the days of one of these kingdoms (see Ruth 1:1), i.e, the Roman; in which the "God of heaven set up" the spiritual kingdom of the Messiah, which shall yet "become a great mountain, and fill the whole earth." the God Dan 2:28, Dan 2:37 set up Gen 49:10; Ps 2:6-12, Ps 72:1-20, Ps 89:3-4, Ps 89:19-36, Ps 110:1-4; Isa 9:6-7; Matt 3:2-3, Matt 28:18; Eph 1:20-22 which shall never Dan 4:3, Dan 4:34, Dan 6:26, Dan 7:13-14; Ps 145:13; Ezek 37:25; Mic 4:7; Luke 1:32-33; John 12:34; Rev 11:15 kingdom Chal, kingdom thereof break Dan 8:25; Ps 2:9, Ps 21:8-9; Isa 60:12; 1Cor 15:24-25; Rev 2:27, Rev 19:15-20
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