This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAs for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,
This image! its head is of good gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass;
This image's head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2