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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel 2:44

The Messianic kingdom of God will overpower and succeed the kingdoms of Syria and Egypt. And the kingdom.. other people] RV 'nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people.' The Messianic kingdom will be in the hands, not of foreigners, but of the Jews. Both the national limitation and the foreshortening of view in this v. are characteristic of OT. prophecy, and do not affect the value of the central truth which is taught.

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See also Daniel 2:44 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Daniel 2:44. _A KINGDOM WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED_] The extensive and extending empire of Christ. _SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE_] All the preceding empires have swallowed up each othe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS - Margin, “their.” The reading in the text “these kings” - is the more correct. The Vulgate renders this, “in the days of these kingdoms.” The natural and obvious sense...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INTERPRETATION OF THE DREAM. According to Daniel's interpretation the colossal statue is a pictorial representation of the course of history. Four empires succeed each other and are finally destro...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THESE KINGS. Represented by the ten toes: i.e. in their days, at the end of the time of the _fifth_ power. Compare Revelation 17:12. That is the moment of the great stone, and of the coming of Messiah...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in the days of these kings_ i.e. of the Seleucidae and Ptolemies, as is implied by the part of the image on which the stone falls (Daniel 2:34). The period in the history of these monarchies which is...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The kingdom of God, to succeed these kingdoms....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The interpretation of the dream. The four parts of the image signify four kingdoms, the first being represented by its present and greatest ruler, Nebuchadnezzar....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1123 THE STONE THAT BECAME A MOUNTAIN Daniel 2:44. _In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS— That is, in the days of _some_ of them. As _in the days when the judges ruled,_ Ruth 1:1 signifies, "In the days when _some_ of the judges ruled;" so _in the days of these...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. FINAL KINGDOM TEXT: Daniel 2:44-45 44 And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, or shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume al...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS. — Yet no kings have been mentioned hitherto. They must therefore correspond to the toes of the image. (Comp. Daniel 7:24.) It appears therefore that while this fourth kingd...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּֽ בְ יֹומֵיהֹ֞ון דִּ֧י מַלְכַיָּ֣א אִנּ֗וּן...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S KINGDOM TRIUMPHANT Daniel 2:36-49 Our Lord probably refers to these five empires when He speaks of “the times of the Gentiles.” The empire of Babylon was followed by that of Medo-Persia under C...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which (z) shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consu...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Kingdom of Christ, in the Catholic Church, which cannot be destroyed. (Challoner) --- This alone cannot be destroyed. (Worthington) --- All other empires change. The Catholic Church has stood for seve...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Think, Reader! what astonishment must have overwhelmed the mind of Babylon's monarch, when beholding a poor captive youth of Israel's race, not only bringing to his recollection all the circumstances...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Jews agree with us in thinking this passage cannot be otherwise understood than of the perpetual reign of Christ, and willingly and eagerly ascribe to the glory of their own nation whatever is wri...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS, c. Not of the Babylonian, Persian, and Grecian kings nor, indeed, of the old Roman kings, or emperors; but in the days of these ten kings, or kingdoms, into which the R...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And in the days of these kings_ That is, kingdoms, or during the succession of these four monarchies; and it must be during the time of the last of them, because they are reckoned _four_ in successio...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And in the days of these kings, while the various minor rulers were in power under the general sovereignty of Rome, SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A KINGDOM WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED, its divine...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Dream Interpreted; Daniel Advanced...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE DAYS: Cald. their days THE KINGDOM: Cald. kingdom thereof...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS, i.e. while the iron kingdom stood, (for Christ was born in the reign of Augustus Caesar, LUKE 2:1) SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A KINGDOM. Now see the difference of Chris...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 2:44 days H3118 these H581 kings H4430 God H426 heaven H8065 up H6966 (H8681) kingdom H4437

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And in the days of those kings will the God of heaven set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people. But it will break in pieces and consume all t...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    AND IN THE DAYS The passage fixes authoritatively the time relative to other predicted events, when the kingdom of the heavens will be set up. It will be "in the days of those kings," that is, the da...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Daniel 2:44 I. Notice the law of decay in human affairs. (1) It is impressively illustrated in the fact that individuals pass so soon out of the memory of the world. (2) It is more impressively illus...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold._ THE IMAGE DESTROYED Looking at the image as a whole, notice: I. ITS UNITY. Four successive empires were not rep...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom._ THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST The stone being cut out of the mountain without hands, is a phrase used in Scripture to convey to us the idea of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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’...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 2:43 God will establish A KINGDOM THAT SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED, his final kingdom, which will ultimately destroy all other KINGDOMS. Though it starts small, it will grow to fill...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ SECT. IX.—THE INTERPRETATION OF THE DREAM (Chap. Daniel 2:36) In the interpretation of the king’s dream we come to the prophecies of Daniel. Some of these prophecies were communications...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:24; 1 Corinthians 15:25; Daniel 4:3; Daniel 4:34;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In the days of these kings — While the iron kingdom stood, for Christ was born in the reign of Augustus Caesar. And this kingdom is not bounded by any limits, as worldly empires are, but is truly univ...

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