Daniel 7:19

7:19 “Then I wanted to know the meaning ¹  of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others. It was very dreadful, with two rows of iron teeth and bronze claws, and it devoured, crushed, and trampled anything that was left with its feet.

Daniel 7:23

7:23 “This is what he told me: ² 

‘The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earth

that will differ from all the other kingdoms.

It will devour all the earth

and will trample and crush it.

Daniel 2:40

2:40 Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces ³  all of these metals, ⁴  so it will break in pieces and crush the others. ⁵ 

Daniel 8:10

8:10 It grew so big it reached the army ⁶  of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars ⁷  to the ground, where it trampled them.

[7:19]  ¹ tn Aram “to make certain.”

[7:23]  ² tn Aram “thus he said.”

[2:40]  ³ tc Theodotion and the Vulgate lack the phrase “and as iron breaks in pieces.”

[2:40]  ⁴ tn The Aramaic text does not have this word, but it has been added in the translation for clarity.

[2:40]  ⁵ tn The words “the others” are supplied from the context.

[8:10]  ⁶ tn Traditionally, “host.” The term refers to God’s heavenly angelic assembly, which he sometimes leads into battle as an army.

[8:10]  ⁷ sn In prescientific Israelite thinking the stars were associated with the angelic members of God’s heavenly assembly. See Judg 5:20; Job 38:7; Isa 40:26. In west Semitic mythology the stars were members of the high god’s divine assembly (see Isa 14:13).