Daniel 2:42 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 2:42

And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

KJV

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TWO (420)

But its feet and toes are partly of iron and partly of earthenware, a fact most clearly demonstrated at the present time. For just as there was at the first nothing stronger or hardier than the Roman realm, so also in these last days there is nothing more feeble, since we require the assistance of barbarian tribes both in our civil wars and against foreign nations.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

NEWTON, who understands the Roman empire to be parted into the ten kingdoms already (whereas TREGELLES makes them future), explains the "clay" mixture as the blending of barbarous nations with Rome by intermarriages and alliances, in which there was no stable amalgamation, though the ten kingdoms retained much of Rome's strength.

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken - Margin, “brittle.” The margin is the more correct rendering of the Chaldee word (תבירה tebı̂yrâh). It means “frail, fragile” - easily broken, but not necessarily that it was actually broken. That did not occur until the stone cut out of the mountain impinged on it.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאֶצְבְּעָת֙	ve.'etz.be.'At	and [the] toes of	H677 →
רַגְלַיָּ֔א	rag.lai.Ya'	feet the	H7271 →
מִנְּהֵ֥ין	mi.ne.hon	some of them	H4481 →
פַּרְזֶ֖ל	par.Zel	iron	H6523 →
וּמִנְּהֵ֣ין	u.mi.ne.hon	and some of them	H4481 →
חֲסַ֑ף	cha.Saf	clay	H2635 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4481 →
קְצָ֤ת	ke.Tzat	[the] part of	H7118 →
מַלְכוּתָא֙	mal.khu.Ta'	kingdom the	H4437 →
תֶּהֱוֵ֣ה	te.he.Veh	it will be	H1934 →
תַקִּיפָ֔ה	ta.ki.Fah	strong	H8624 →
וּמִנַּ֖הּ	u.mi.Nah	and from it	H4481 →
תֶּהֱוֵ֥ה	te.he.Veh	it will be	H1934 →
תְבִירָֽה׃	te.vi.Rah	breakable	H8406 →

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Where the connections lead

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Revelation 13:1
Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
leads to
- Revelation 17:3
  And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 12:3
  Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
- Revelation 11:7
  When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
- Daniel 7:23–25
  This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down,…
- Daniel 7:7–8
  After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot…
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Daniel 7:24
And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
leads to
- Daniel 7:20
  I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others,…
- Daniel 11:36
  Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the…
- Revelation 13:1
  Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.