Daniel 2:42 (BSB)
And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
From Daniel 2. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 2:42
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 2:31-45: 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 been brought up at the king's cost, preferred at court, and the land of his captivity had hereby been made much easier to him than to others of his brethren.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 2:42: And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay,.... Or some of them of iron, and so were strong and powerful, as some of these kingdoms were; and some of clay, and so were weak and easily crushed, and did not stand long: so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken; this is not unfitly interpreted by...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Daniel 2:31-45: Dan 2:31-45 The Dream and Its Interpretation. - Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream a great metallic image which was terrible to look upon. אלוּ (behold), which Daniel interchanges with ארו, corresponds with the Hebrew words ראה, ראוּ, or הנּה. צלם is not an idol-image (Hitz.), but a statue, and, as is manifest from the following description, a statue in human form.