Daniel 2:37-40

a king.

1Ki 4:24; Ezr 7:12; Isa 10:8; 47:5; Jer 27:6,7; Eze 26:7; Ho 8:10

Re 1:5; 17:14

the God.

4:25,32; 5:18; 2Ch 36:23; Ezr 1:2; Pr 8:15; Jer 28:14; Re 19:16

power.

4:3,34; Ps 62:11; Mt 6:13; Joh 19:11; Re 4:11; 5:12

the beasts.

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.

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, B.C. 538.

32; 5:28-31; 7:5; 8:3,4,20; 11:2; Isa 44:28; 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, B.C. 331

32; 7:6,7,23; 8:5-14; 10:20; 11:3-20; Zec 6:3,6

the fourth.The Roman empire, which comprised nearly the whole world.

33; 7:19-26; 8:24; 9:26; 11:36-45; Joh 11:48

forasmuch.

7:7; Jer 15:12; Am 1:3

Daniel 7:3-4

four.Four kingdoms, (ver. 17,) called beasts, from their tyranny and oppression, emerging from the wars and commotions of the world.

2:32,33,37-40; Zec 6:1-8

beasts.

4-8,17; Ps 76:4; Eze 19:3-8; Re 13:1

like.

De 28:49; 2Sa 1:23; Isa 5:28,29; Jer 4:7,13; 25:38; 48:40; La 4:19

Eze 17:3; Hab 1:6-8; Mt 24:28

the wings.

4:31-33; Jer 50:30-32

and it. or, wherewith it, etc. lifted.

4:30; 5:18-23; Isa 14:13-17; Jer 25:9-26; Hab 2:5-10

and a.

4:32,36; Job 25:6; Ps 9:20; Eze 28:2,9

Daniel 8:19-22

I will.

15-17; Re 1:1

the last.

17,23; 9:26,27; 11:27,35,36; 12:7,8; Hab 2:3; Re 10:7; 11:18

Re 15:1; 17:17

3; 11:1,2

the rough.

5-7; 10:20

the great.

8; 11:3

being broken.After Alexander's death, in the prime of life and in the height of his conquests, his brother and two sons were all murdered; and the kingdom was divided among four of his generals. 1. Seleucus, who had Syria and Babylon; 2. Lysimachus, who had Asia Minor; 3. Ptolemy, who had Egypt; and, 4. Cassander, who had Greece, etc.

whereas.

3; 11:4
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