Daniel 2:31
“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.”
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
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.
This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
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Cross-References
“And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;”
“Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?”
“They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.”
“Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.”
“Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.”