Daniel 2:31-33

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 2:25-35

Daniel 2:25-Habakkuk : . Daniel Declares the Dream to the King.— By the inspiration of God Daniel is enabled to describe to the king his forgotten dream. In this dream the king had seen the image of a colossal man, which was of surpassing brilliance. The head was made of gold, the upper part of the body of silver, the lower part of bronze, the legs of iron, the feet of iron mixed with clay. As the king watched, a stone “ cut without hands” smote the image and smashed it in pieces. The stone... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 2:31

A great image; not a painted, superficial image, but a massy one, a statue in man’s shape, great, splendid, majestical: thus they were wont of old to represent great emperors and empires, and worshipped them as gods: called here an image, and in a dream, all which is in show and shadow rather than in substance, and therefore vanishing. Stood before thee, and that upright, of a prodigious height, noting the grandeur of those monarchies. The form thereof was terrible: government is to be feared,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Daniel 2:33

By this we see the world is much worse and far declined, every age degenerating from what it was of old; as the poets, which borrowed their fancy from this image, have described the ages of the world from metals; the first was golden, and so, coming on coarser, it ended at last, as this image in the text, in dirt. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Daniel 2:31-35

HOMILETICSSECT. VIII.—THE DREAM (Chap. Daniel 2:31-35)With the confidence of a man inspired and commissioned by the Most High, Daniel proceeds to declare the king’s dream. The dream one of no ordinary character. Exhibited the fate, not only of the empire of Babylon, but of those which should succeed it. Foreshowed their destruction and the means by which it should be effected. A little mysterious stone, with which the history of the world was bound up, was to accomplish the whole. The dream... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Daniel 2:29-49

Daniel 2:29-49 I take the severance of the stone from the mountain to denote the coming of Christ into the world, and the collision of the stone with the image to mean the founding by the Lord of that spiritual kingdom which is in its principles antagonistic to all the world-powers, and which will ultimately subdue them all. Thus viewed, the vision which Daniel recovered and interpreted suggests to us many interesting things concerning the kingdom of Christ. I. There is, first, its superhuman... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Daniel 2:31

great image The monarchy-vision. Nebuchadnezzar's dream, as interpreted by Daniel, gives the course and end of "the times of the Gentiles" Luke 21:24. (See Scofield "Luke 21:24- :") that is, of Gentile world-empire. The four metals composing the image are explained as symbolizing Daniel 2:38-40 four empires, not necessarily possessing the inhabited earth, but able to do so (Daniel 2:38), and fulfilled in Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece (under Alexander), and Rome. The latter power is seen... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Daniel 2:1-49

Chapter 2Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep was taken from him. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to show the king his dream. So they came and they stood before the king. And the king said unto them, I've dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. So the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Syriac ( Daniel 2:1-4... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 2:1-49

Daniel 2:1 . In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar, after he ascended the throne, according to the Chaldaic account, which was the fourth according to the Hebrew account. Nebuchadnezzar is thought by some to have reigned awhile with his father, as Solomon did with David. He is called king when he first came against Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 36:6. Daniel 2:2 . Call the hariolites or aruspices, those who used incantations, being diviners. The magicians, those who affected to know all the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Daniel 2:31-33

Daniel 2:31-33Thou, O King, sawest, and behold a great image.The Aggregation of EvilLook at evil as represented by this colossal image. I. IT IS A COMPOUND THING. The image was made up of various substances: gold, silver, brass, iron, clay. Evil does not often appear here in its naked simplicity, it is mixed up with other things. Errors in combination with truths, selfishness with benevolence, superstition with religion, infidelity with science, injustice with law and evil, too, is in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Daniel 2:31

Dan 2:31 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. Ver. 31. Thou, O king, sawest, ] sc., By the force of thy fancy; for in sleep the reasonable soul cometh into the shop of fantasy, and there doth strange works, which are vented in our dreams. And behold a great image. ] A fit representation, and in a dream especially, of worldly greatness. An image, saith Theodoret, is but the... read more

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