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.
KJV
Tu, rex, videbas, et ecce quasi statua una grandis : statua illa magna, et statura sublimis stabat contra te, et intuitus ejus erat terribilis.
Vulgate
καὶ σύ, βασιλεῦ, ἑώρακας, καὶ ἰδοὺ εἰκὼν μία, καὶ ἦν ἡ εἰκὼν ἐκείνη μεγάλη σφόδρα, καὶ ἡ πρόσοψις αὐτῆς ὑπερφερὴς ἑστήκει ἐναντίον σου· καὶ ἡ πρόσοψις τῆς εἰκόνος φοβερά.
LXX
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 was terrible.
ASV
אַ֣נְתְּה מַלְכָּ֗/א חָזֵ֤ה הֲוַ֨יְתָ֙ וַ/אֲל֨וּ צְלֵ֥ם חַד֙ שַׂגִּ֔יא צַלְמָ֨/א דִּכֵּ֥ן רַ֛ב וְ/זִיוֵ֥/הּ יַתִּ֖יר קָאֵ֣ם לְ/קָבְלָ֑/ךְ וְ/רֵוֵ֖/הּ דְּחִֽיל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Prophecy
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Covers Hezekiah's reforms and Sennacherib's invasion, the reigns of Manasseh and Josiah, the fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, the destruction of Solomon's Temple, the exile to Babylon, and the career of the prophet Daniel. Josephus explicitly cites Isaiah's prophecy of Cyrus and Daniel's prophecies, calling Daniel one of the greatest prophets.
Cross-references
- Dan 3:1 — Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- Dan 7:3 — And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
- Ezek 28:7 — 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.
- Hab 1:7 — They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
- Isa 13:11 — And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.