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parallelVerse INT GEN EXO LEV NUM DEU JOB JOS JDG RUTH 1SA 2SA PSA AMOS HOS 1KI 2KI 1CH 2CH PRO ECC SNG JOEL MIC ISA ZEP HAB JER LAM YNA NAH OBA DAN EZE EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL YHN MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC GAL 1TH 2TH 1COR 2COR ROM COL PHM EPH PHP 1TIM TIT 1PET 2PET 2TIM HEB YUD 1YHN 2YHN 3YHN REV
Dan Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12
Dan 2 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V35 V37 V39 V41 V43 V45 V47 V49
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OET-LV Legs_its [were]_(diy)_of iron feet_its partly_them[fn] [were]_(diy)_of iron and_partly_them[fn] [were]_(diy)_of clay.
2:33 Variant note: מנ/הון: (x-qere) ’מִנְּ/הֵין֙’: lemma_4481 n_0.1.0 morph_AR/Sp3fp id_27FsE מִנְּ/הֵין֙
2:33 Variant note: ו/מנ/הון: (x-qere) ’וּ/מִנְּ/הֵ֖ין’: lemma_c/4481 n_0.0 morph_AC/R/Sp3fp id_27Pw8 וּ/מִנְּ/הֵ֖ין
UHB שָׁק֖וֹהִי דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֑ל רַגְל֕וֹהִי מנהון דִּ֣י פַרְזֶ֔ל ומנהון דִּ֥י חֲסַֽף׃ ‡
(shāqōhī diy farzel raglōhī mnhvn diy farzel vmnhvn diy ḩₐşaf.)
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Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXX No BrLXX DAN book available
BrTr No BrTr DAN book available
ULT its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
UST Its legs were made of iron, and its feet were a mixture of clay and iron.
BSB its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.
OEB its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.
WEBBE its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.
WMBB (Same as above)
NET Its legs were of iron; its feet were partly of iron and partly of clay.
LSV its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron, and part of them of clay.
FBV its legs were iron, and its feet were iron and baked clay.
T4T Its legs were made of iron, and its feet were a mixture of clay and iron.
LEB its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron and part of them of clay.
BBE Its legs of iron, its feet were in part of iron and in part of potter's earth.
Moff No Moff DAN book available
JPS its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.
ASV its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
DRA And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay.
YLT its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron, and part of them of clay.
Drby its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.
RV his legs of iron, his feet part of iron, and part of clay.
Wbstr His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
KJB-1769 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
KJB-1611 His legs of yron, his feete part of yron, and part of clay.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
Bshps His legges were of iron, his feete were part of iron and part of clay.
(His legges were of iron, his feet were part of iron and part of clay.)
Gnva His legges of yron, and his feete were part of yron, and part of clay.
(His legges of iron, and his feet were part of iron, and part of clay. )
Cvdl his legges were off yron, his fete were parte off yron, and parte of earth.
(his legges were off iron, his feet were part off iron, and part of earth.)
Wycl but the leggis weren of irun; forsothe sum part of the feet was of irun, sum was of erthe.
(but the leggis were of irun; forsothe sum part of the feet was of irun, sum was of earth.)
Luth seine Schenkel waren Eisen; seine Füße waren eines Teils Eisen und eines Teils Ton.
(seine Schenkel were Eisen; his feet were one Teils Eisen and one Teils Ton.)
ClVg tibiæ autem ferreæ: pedum quædam pars erat ferrea, quædam autem fictilis.
(tibiæ however ferreæ: pedum quædam pars was ferrea, quædam however fictilis. )
2:1-49 God gave a dream that encompassed the flow of world history over the centuries, and Daniel interpreted the enigmatic imagery of this revelation. This dream and its interpretation reflect a key theme of the book—the assured final establishment of the Kingdom of God as the ultimate goal of history (2:44-45; 7:9-14, 26-27). This chapter also demonstrates the inability of paganism to discern the activity and plans of Israel’s God.
Four World Empires
Two panoramic visions in Daniel present God’s sovereignty over history. Nebuchadnezzar had the first vision (ch 2), and Daniel had another like it (ch 7). In each of these visions, four of the kingdoms of the world are presented.
There have always been questions about the identities of the four empires, but historically there has also been considerable consensus. Hippolytus (AD 170–236), one of the early church fathers, identified the four kingdoms as Babylonia, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome. The church father and historian Eusebius of Caesarea (AD 260–340) initially identified the first kingdom as Assyria (which once also controlled Babylon), but he later agreed with Hippolytus, as did most of the church fathers. Later, Jerome and Augustine accepted this same understanding, and conservative interpreters largely still agree.
In antiquity and in our era, some interpreters have argued that Greece is the fourth empire, treating Media and Persia as separate kingdoms. This interpretation is due in part to denying the possibility of prediction, assuming the book was written before the Roman Empire had arisen. But Media and Persia are usually regarded as one empire, and the Median kingdom had been mostly assimilated by the Persians by the time Cyrus II conquered Babylon in 539 BC.
Rome is then seen as the fourth kingdom, but the bestial, demonic, and inhumane characteristics of the vision extend beyond the historical Rome. The visions also represent a panorama of the whole world and its governments; all will be destroyed and replaced by the Kingdom of God, the “rock . . . cut from a mountain” (2:34). The metals of the statue become progressively less valuable in chapter 2, while the animal imagery of chapter 7 becomes more menacingly fierce, violent, and inhumane. These features represent a deterioration of human civilization across the centuries, even as the Kingdom of God grows in power and stature (2:35).
Passages for Further Study