Daniel 2:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

Daniel 2:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 1:7
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Daniel 7:3-17
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. …
Ezekiel 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
Isaiah 13:11
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah 25:3-5
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. …

Topics

Armies Babel Babylon Chaldea Government Mesopotamia Nebuchadnezzar Nimrod

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 31-45)

Daniel here gives full satisfaction to Nebuchadnezzar concerning his dream and the interpretation of it. That great prince had been kind to this poor prophet in his maintenance and education; he had been brought up at the king’s cost, preferred at court, and the land of his captivity had hereby been made much easier to him than to others of his brethren. And now the king is abundantly repaid for a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. The world power in its totality appears as a colossal human form: Babylon the head of gold, Medo-Persia the breast and two arms of silver, Græco-Macedonia the belly and two thighs of brass, and Rome, with its Germano-Slavonic offshoots, the legs of iron and feet of iron and clay, the fourth still existing. Those kingdoms only are mentioned which stand in some relation to the kingdom of God; of…