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Verse 31. _A GREAT IMAGE_] Representing the _four great monarchies_....
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THOU, O KING, SAWEST - Margin, “wast seeing.” The margin is in
accordance with the Chaldee. The language is properly what denotes a
prolonged or attentive observation. He was in an attitude favorable...
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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)...
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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...
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SAWEST. wast looking.
FORM. appearance....
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_sawest_ more exactly, _wast seeing_. So Daniel 2:34.
_This image_, WHICH WAS MIGHTY, AND _whose brightness was_ SURPASSING]
-Excellent" in Old English (from _excello_, to rise up out of, to
surpass)...
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Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar his dream....
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BEHOLD A GREAT IMAGE— It appears from ancient coins and medals, that
cities and people were often represented by the figures of men and
women. A great and terrible human figure was therefore no improp...
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c. PUBLICATION
TEXT: Daniel 2:31-35
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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...
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Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image,
whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form
thereof was terrible.
THOU, O KING, SAWEST, AND, BEHOLD, A GREAT IM...
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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...
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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...
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A GREAT IMAGE. — Properly, _one great image._ This is one important
feature in the vision. The image, though representing many things, was
itself only “one.” (See Note on Daniel 2:1.) That the image w...
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_אַ֣נְתְּ_† מַלְכָּ֗א חָזֵ֤ה
הֲוַ֨יְתָ֙ וַ אֲל֨וּ צְלֵ֥ם
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Terrible, or unusual. (Calmet) --- The statue denoted the four great
empires of the Chaldees, Persians, Greeks and Romans. The metals did
not mean that the empire of gold was greater than the rest, as...
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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...
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Although Daniel here records the dream, and does not touch on its
interpretation, yet we must not proceed farther without discoursing on
the matter itself. When the interpretation is afterwards added,...
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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...
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THOU, O KING, SAWEST,.... Or, "wast seeing" z; not with the eyes of
his body, but in his fancy and imagination; as he was dreaming, he
thought he saw such an appearance, so it seemed to him, as follow...
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Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image,
whose brightness [was] excellent, stood before thee; and the form
thereof [was] terrible.
Ver. 31. _Thou, O king, sawest,_] _sc., _ B...
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_Thou, O king, sawest, and behold, a great image_ “It appears, from
ancient coins and medals, that cities and people were often
represented by figures of men and women. A great, terrible human
figure...
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SAWEST:
Cald. wast seeing...
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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...
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A GREAT IMAGE; not a painted, superficial image, but a massy one, a
statue in man's shape, great, splendid, majestical: thus they were
wont of old to represent great emperors and empires, and worshipp...
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Daniel 2:31 You H607 king H4430 watching H1934 (H8754) H2370 (H8751)
behold H431 great H2298...
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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...
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GREAT IMAGE
The monarchy-vision. Nebuchadnezzar's dream, as interpreted by Daniel,
gives the course and end of "the times of the Gentiles" (Luke 21:24).
(_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 16:19) _
That...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Thou, O King, sawest, and behold a great image._
THE AGGREGATION OF EVIL
Look at evil as represented by this colossal image.
I. IT IS A COMPOUND THING. The image was made up of various
substances:...
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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’...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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Daniel 7:3; Ezekiel 28:7; Habakkuk 1:7; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 25:3;...