Daniel 2:43 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 2:43

As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.

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ASV

And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay.

KJV

And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

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Commentary

2 voices

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.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men - Various explanations have been given of this verse, and it certainly is not of easy interpretation. The phrase “seed of men,” would properly denote something different from the original stock that was represented by iron; some foreign admixture that would be so unlike that, and that would so little amalgamate with it, as to be properly represented by clay as compared with iron. Prof.

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.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְדִ֣י	ve.di	and that	H1768 →
חֲזַ֗יְתָ	cha.Zay.ta	you saw	H2370 →
פַּרְזְלָא֙	par.ze.La'	iron the	H6523 →
מְעָרַב֙	me.'a.Rav	mixed	H6151 →
בַּחֲסַ֣ף	ba.cha.Saf	with [the] clay of	H2635 →
טִינָ֔א	ti.Na'	clay the	H2917 →
מִתְעָרְבִ֤ין	mit.'a.re.Vin	mixing	H6151 →
לֶהֱוֹן֙	le.he.Von	they will be	H1934 →
בִּזְרַ֣ע	biz.Ra'	with [the] offspring of	H2234 →
אֲנָשָׁ֔א	'a.na.Sha'	<the> humankind	H606 →
וְלָֽא־	ve.la'-	and not	H3809 →
לֶהֱוֹ֥ן	le.he.Von	they will be	H1934 →
דָּבְקִ֖ין	da.ve.Kin	clinging	H1693 →
דְּנָ֣ה	de.Nah	this	H1836 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5974 →
דְּנָ֑ה	de.Nah	this	H1836 →
הֵֽא־	he'-	here!	H1888 →
כְדִ֣י	khe.Di	like that	H1768 →
פַרְזְלָ֔א	far.ze.La'	<the> iron	H6523 →
לָ֥א	la'	not	H3809 →
מִתְעָרַ֖ב	mit.'a.Rav	[is] mixing	H6151 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5974 →
חַסְפָּֽא׃	chas.Pa'	<the> clay	H2635 →