Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Daniel 2:35
Verse 35. The stone - became a great mountain] There is the kingdom אבן eben, of the stone, and the kingdom of the mountain. See at the end at the chapter. Daniel 2:49.
Verse 35. The stone - became a great mountain] There is the kingdom אבן eben, of the stone, and the kingdom of the mountain. See at the end at the chapter. Daniel 2:49.
THEN WAS THE IRON, THE CLAY, THE BRASS, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD BROKEN TO PIECES TOGETHER, AND BECAME LIKE THE CHAFF OF THE SUMMER THRESHING-FLOOR - The word rendered “together” (כצרה _kachădâh_) o...
CHAPTER 2 NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM AND ITS INTERPRETATION _ 1. The forgotten dream (Daniel 2:1)_ 2. The prayer meeting in Babylon and the answer (Daniel 2:14) 3. Daniel before the king (Daniel 2:24)...
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 o...
IRON, THE CLAY, &C. Note the order differently given to distinguish the five (not the four), answering to the five parts of the image in Daniel 2:32, and the five kingdoms, verses: Daniel 2:32 , Danie...
Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar his dream....
The absolute dissipation of the image. The feet being broken, the entire image fell to pieces; and the fragments were dispersed by the wind. A fall would not naturally break masses of metal into fragm...
A STONE WAS CUT OUT WITHOUT HANDS— _Stone,_ in Scripture, stands for king or kingdom, as _mountain_ doth for a metropolis; the seat of a kingdom governed by a royal race: and being here a different mi...
c. PUBLICATION TEXT: Daniel 2:31-35 31 Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the aspect thereof...
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was...
NEBUCHANDEZZAR'S DREAM-IMAGE Nebuchadnezzar in his second year had a dream, which he required the wise men of his court to describe and interpret on pain of death. They said this was beyond their powe...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 2 V1 When Nebuchadnezzar had been king for almost two years, he had dreams. His mind was anxious and he could not sleep. Verse 1 Nebuc...
LIKE THE CHAFF. — This language recalls Psalms 1:4; Psalms 2:9. It is emblematic of Divine judgments, as Isaiah 41:15; Jeremiah 51:33, &c. Comp. wi
בֵּ אדַ֣יִן דָּ֣קוּ כַ חֲדָ֡ה פַּרְזְלָא֩ חַס
THE DREAM-IMAGE OF RUINED EMPIRES "With thee will I break in pieces rulers and captains." - Jeremiah 51:23 THE Book of Daniel is constructed with consummate skill to teach the mighty lessons which it...
WISDOM GRANTED IN THE HOUR OF NEED Daniel 2:14-35 The action of Daniel in this supreme crisis is very instructive. He reckoned absolutely on God, and in his chivalrous endeavor to save the lives of t...
In the second year of his reign Nebuchadnezzar, troubled by dreams and unable to sleep, called together his enchanters and sorcerers to explain his dreams one of which troubled him especially. Their d...
There are several interesting things in this relation of Daniel, which ought not to be passed by. Observe the modesty of the Prophet, in totally disclaiming all pretensions to merit in himself, and re...
_THE STONE THAT GREW_ ‘The stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.’ Daniel 2:35 This revelation to Daniel was not merely a single gleam of heavenly consolati...
On the other hand, we see in the second chapter the mighty king of the Gentiles made the depositary of the history of the Gentiles, and of God's entire plan, as the recipient of these divine communica...
THEN WAS THE IRON, THE CLAY, THE BRASS, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD, BROKEN TO PIECES TOGETHER,.... The feet, the basis of the image, being broken, the whole body of it fell, and with its own weight was...
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was...
_Thou sawest till a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image_, &c. Here the whole image is represented as destroyed by a great stone falling upon its feet and breaking them to pieces, wh...
The Dream Interpreted; Daniel Advanced...
Then, as a result of this smashing blow, WAS THE IRON, THE CLAY, THE BRASS, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD, all the perishable materials of the image named in reverse order, BROKEN TO PIECES TOGETHER AND BE...
31-45 This image represented the kingdoms of the earth, that should successively rule the nations, and influence the affairs of the Jewish church. 1. The head of gold signified the Chaldean empire, t...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Daniel 2:35 Then H116 iron H6523 clay H2635 bronze H5174 silver H3702 gold H1722 crushed H1855 (H8754) ...
THE VISION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR (DANIEL 2:31). “You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This image which was mighty and whose brightness was spectacular, stood before you. And its aspect was dreadful...
MOUNTAIN A mountain is one of the bibical symbols of a kingdom. (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 2:2). _...
Daniel 2:34 I. We see in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar the great fact that the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of truth, is at length to be supreme over all other kingdoms. Other king...
Daniel 2:29 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 sp...
CONTENTS: Visions of Nebuchadnezzar and their results. The forgotten dream and the failure of the astrologers. Daniel's interpretation after prayer for wisdom. CHARACTERS: Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, Sha...
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...
_Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands._ THE DREAM RECOVERED AND INTERPRETED The vision suggests to us many interesting things concerning the Kingdom of Christ. 1. Its superhuman o...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 2:1 Nebuchadnezzar expects his own interpreters to tell him the content of his dream, perhaps to prove that they are genuinely qualified to interpret it (vv. Daniel 2:1). Daniel’...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. VIII.—THE DREAM (Chap. Daniel 2:31) 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 ordina...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 2:1 DANIEL FIRST BECOMES DISTINGUISHED. DANIEL 2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was trou
Now 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...
1 Corinthians 15:25; Hosea 13:3; Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 17:13; Isaia