Daniel 2:46
King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and ordered that offerings and incense be presented to him.
King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and ordered that offerings and incense be presented to him.
This is the meaning of your vision of a rock cut from a mountain—not by human hands; the rock that struck the statue and shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God has shown the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is reliable.”
In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will establish a kingdom that will never be destroyed or handed over to another people. It will crush all these kingdoms and put an end to them, and it will last forever.
Just as you saw iron mixed with baked clay, the people will be a mixture but will not stay united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
And as the toes were partly iron and partly clay, the kingdom will be partly strong and partly weak.
The partly-clay and partly-iron feet and toes mean it will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some strength of iron, just as you saw iron mixed with clay.
The last will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron; and just as iron breaks and crushes everything else, so will it break and destroy all the others.
After you, another kingdom, weaker than yours, will rise. Then a third kingdom made of bronze will rule the whole world.
and into whose hand he has placed humankind, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you ruler over them. You are that head of gold.
You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given dominion, strength, power, and glory,