Bible Chapter Summary
Daniel 2 Summary
The Statue: Four Kingdoms and the Eternal Kingdom
Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great statue made of different materials, destroyed by a stone cut without human hands. Daniel reveals and interprets the dream: four successive kingdoms will rise, but God will establish an eternal kingdom that will never be destroyed. The stone becomes a great mountain filling the whole earth.
Key themes
Key verses
Daniel 2:20-21
“Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:”
Daniel 2:34-35
“Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
Daniel 2:44
“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
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