Daniel 2:40

New International Reader's Version

Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom. It will be as strong as iron. Iron breaks and smashes everything to pieces. And the fourth kingdom will crush and break all the others.

Cross References

Job 9:17

He would send a storm to crush me. He’d increase my wounds without any reason.

Jeremiah 15:12

“People of Judah, the armies of Babylon will come from the north. They are as strong as iron and bronze. Can anyone break their power?

Daniel 2:33

Its legs were made out of iron. And its feet were partly iron and partly baked clay.

Daniel 2:39

“After you, another kingdom will take over. It won’t be as powerful as yours. Next, a third kingdom will rule over the whole earth. The bronze part of the statue stands for that kingdom.

Daniel 2:41

You saw that the feet and toes were made out of iron and baked clay. And the fourth kingdom will be divided up. But it will still have some of the strength of iron. That’s why you saw iron mixed with clay.

Daniel 7:7

“After that, in my vision I looked up and saw a fourth animal. It was terrifying and very powerful. It had large iron teeth. It crushed those it attacked and ate them up. It stomped on anything that was left. It was different from the other animals. And it had ten horns.

Daniel 8:24

He will become very strong. But he will not get that way by his own power. People will be amazed at the way he destroys everything. He will be successful no matter what he does. He will destroy mighty people. Those mighty people are God’s holy people.

Daniel 9:26

After the 62 ‘weeks,’ the Anointed King will be put to death. His followers will desert him. And everything he has will be taken away from him. The army of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the temple. The end will come like a flood. War will continue until the end. The Lord has ordered that many places be destroyed.

Amos 1:3

The Lord says, “The people of Damascus have sinned again and again. So I will judge them. They used threshing sleds with iron teeth to crush Gilead’s people.

John 11:48

If we let him keep on doing this, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will come. They will take away our temple and our nation.”