Daniel 2:40-47

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⁴⁰ Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others.^{(A) 41} Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. ⁴² As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. ⁴³ And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

⁴⁴ “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush^(B) all those kingdoms^(C) and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.^{(D) 45} This is the meaning of the vision of the rock^(E) cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands^(F)—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future.^(G) The dream is true^(H) and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

⁴⁶ Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate^(I) before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering^(J) and incense be presented to him. ⁴⁷ The king said to Daniel, “Surely your God is the God of gods^(K) and the Lord of kings^(L) and a revealer of mysteries,^(M) for you were able to reveal this mystery.^(N)”