This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
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Gill's Exposition
This image's head was of fine gold,.... The prophet begins with the superior part of this image, and descends to the lower, because of the order and condition of the monarchies it represents: this…
Barnes' Notes
This image’s head was of fine gold - Chaldee, “good gold” - טב דהב dehab ṭâb - that is, fine, pure, unalloyed. The whole head of the figure, colossal as it was, appeared to be composed wholly of…
Adam Clarke
Head was of fine gold - The Babylonish empire, the first and greatest.
Breast and his arms of silver - The Medo-Persian empire, under Cyrus, etc.
His belly and his thighs of brass - The Macedonian…
Daniel here gives full satisfaction to Nebuchadnezzar concerning his dream and the interpretation of it. That great prince had been kind to this poor prophet in his maintenance and education; he had…
The head of the image was of gold; but its substance deteriorated more and more until the feet were reached, which were of mingled iron and clay.
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