"In your vision, Your Majesty, you saw standing before you a huge, shining statue of a man. It was a frightening sight. The head of the statue was made of fine gold. Its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze, its legs were iron and its feet were a combination of iron and baked clay. As you watched, a rock was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands. It struck the feet of iron and clay, smashing them to bits. (see Daniel 8:19-25) The whole statue was crushed into small pieces of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Then the wind blew them away without a trace, like chaff on a threshing floor. (see Psalm 1:4, Isaiah 17:12-14, Hosea 13:1-3) But the rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.
"That was the dream. Now we will tell the king what it means. Your Majesty, you are the greatest of kings. The God of heaven has given you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor. (see Isaiah 47, Jeremiah 27-28, Ezekiel 26) He has made you the ruler over all the inhabited world and has put even the wild animals and birds under your control. (see Jeremiah 25:7-11) You are the head of gold."
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