Daniel 2:33-35

33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

34 "You continued looking until * a ¹stone was cut out ²without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and ³crushed them.

35 "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became ⁴like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that ⁵not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great ⁶mountain and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 2:33-35 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DANIAL 2

The subject of this chapter is a dream which Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed, but had forgot; upon which he calls his magicians and astrologers together, to tell him it, and the interpretation of it; threatening them with death if they did not, and promising them great rewards and honour if they did, Da 2:1-6, they urge the unreasonableness of the demand, and the impossibility of the thing; which so highly incensed the king, that he ordered their immediate destruction, Da 2:7-13, Daniel and his companions being in danger, he goes in to the king, and desires time, and he would show him what he had dreamed; which being granted, he spent it in prayer to God, Da 2:14-18, and the thing being revealed to him, he gave thanks to God, Da 2:19-23, and being introduced to the king, he both told him his dream, and the interpretation of it; which concerned the four monarchies of the world, and the everlasting kingdom of the Messiah, Da 2:24-45, upon which he was highly honoured, and greatly promoted by the king, Da 2:46-49.

Cross References

• 1. Daniel 2:45
• 2. Daniel 8:25; Zechariah 4:6
• 3. Psalms 2:9; Isaiah 60:12
• 4. Psalms 1:4; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 41:15, 16; Hosea 13:3
• 5. Psalms 37:10, 36
• 6. Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "were"
• [b]. Lit "like one"