Daniel 2:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron; just as iron crushes and smashes everything, it shall crush and shatter all these.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the fourth kingdom [Rome] shall be strong as iron, since iron breaks to pieces and subdues all things; and like iron which crushes, it shall break and crush all these. [Dan. 7:7, 23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.

Common English Bible

Then will come a fourth kingdom, mighty like iron. Just as iron shatters and crushes everything; so like an iron that smashes, it will shatter and crush all these others.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the fourth kingdom will be like iron. Just as iron shatters and conquers all things, so will it shatter and crush all these.

English Standard Version 2016

And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these.

Daniel 2:40 Cross References

Job 9:17

For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;

Jeremiah 15:12

Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?

Daniel 2:33

its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

Daniel 2:39

After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over the whole earth.

Daniel 2:41

As you saw the feet and toes partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the strength of iron shall be in it, as you saw the iron mixed with the clay.

Daniel 7:7

After this I saw in the visions by night a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth and was devouring, breaking in pieces, and stamping what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that preceded it, and it had ten horns.

Daniel 8:24

He shall grow strong in power, shall cause fearful destruction, and shall succeed in what he does. He shall destroy the powerful and the people of the holy ones.

Daniel 9:26

After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Amos 1:3

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

John 11:48

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.”