Four kingdoms of Daniel
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The four kingdoms of Daniel are four kingdoms which, according to the Book of Daniel, precede the "end-times" and the "Kingdom of God".
The four beasts and the Ancient of Days, depicted in the Silos Apocalypse
Daniel's Vision of the Beasts, 1866 engraving by Gustave Doré.
This 1630 engraving of Daniel's vision in chapter 7 by Matthäus Merian follows Jerome's interpretation of the four beasts, but with "Assyria" in place of "Babylon".
The Foure Monarchies was the title of a long poem by Anne Bradstreet from 1650. Title page of the 1678 edition of her poems.
Daniel 2
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Daniel 2 tells how Daniel related and interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. In his night dream, the king saw a gigantic statue made of four metals, from its head of gold to its fe
Four kingdoms of Daniel
…BC), and was later expanded by the visions of chapters 7–12 in the Maccabean era (mid-2nd century BC). The "four kingdoms" theme appears explicitly in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7, and is implicit in the imagery of Daniel 8. Daniel's concept of four successive world empires is drawn from Greek theories of mythological…
Nebuchadnezzar's dream: the composite statue (France, 15th century)
Illustration of Nebuchadnezzar's statue from the 13th-century Chroniques de la Bible (The Hague, Royal Library of the Netherlands, 131 A 3, fol. 25)
Daniel intercedes with Arioch.