human
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the aspect thereof was terrible. As for this image, his head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron, and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors: and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth
gpt
Thou art this head of gold (v. 38), we are shown that the second kingdom was that of the =Medes and Persians= by the prophet's record of the doom of Nebuchadnezzar's successor, Belshazzar:
human
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom (Dan. 5. 30, 31; cp. v. 28). That the third kingdom was the =Grecian= we find in the interpretation of part of a vision recorded in the eighth chapter:
gpt
The ram which thou sawest that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough he-goat [who was seen to destroy the ram, v. 8] is the king of Greece
human
Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled
gpt
And in the days of those kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever