Daniel 2:31

'Thou, O king, wast looking, and lo, a certain great image. This image [is] mighty, and its brightness excellent; it is standing over-against thee, and its appearance [is] terrible.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30As to me — not for [any] wisdom that is in me above any living hath this secret been revealed to me; but for the intent that the interpretation to the king they make known, and the thoughts of thy heart thou dost know.

32This image! its head [is] of good gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass;

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:11And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.

Ezekiel 28:7Therefore, lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, The terrible of the nations, And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they have pierced thy brightness.

Daniel 2:37'Thou, O king, art a king of kings, for the God of the heavens a kingdom, strength, and might, and glory, hath given to thee;

Habakkuk 1:7Terrible and fearful it [is], From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth.

Luke 4:5And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

Matthew Henry on Daniel 2:25-31

Nebuchadnezzar's Dream. ( b. c. 603.) 24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the interpretation. 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. 26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose… Read the whole commentary →

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