Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
This image! its head is of good gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass;
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Holman Bible
The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its stomach and thighs were bronze,
International Standard Version
That statue had a head made of pure gold, with its chest and arms made of silver, its abdomen and thighs made of bronze,
A Conservative Version
As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
American Standard Version
As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
Amplified
As for this
Bible in Basic English
As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,
Darby Translation
This image's head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
Julia Smith Translation
This image, its head of good gold, the breasts and arms of silver, and the bowels and thighs of brass:
King James 2000
This image's head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
Lexham Expanded Bible
The head of this statue [was] of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
Modern King James verseion
This image's head was of fine gold; his breast and his arms were of silver; his belly and his thighs were of bronze;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The image head was of fine gold, his breast and arms of silver, his body and loins were of copper,
NET Bible
As for that statue, its head was of fine gold, its chest and arms were of silver, its belly and thighs were of bronze.
New Heart English Bible
As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
The Emphasized Bible
As for this image, its head, was of fine gold, its breast and its arms, were of silver, - its belly and its thighs, of bronze;
Webster
The head of this image was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
World English Bible
As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
Themes
Babylon » Represented by » A head of gold
Brass » Inferior in value to gold and silver
Empires/world powers » The great image
the Macedonian empire » Illustrated by the » Brazen part of the image in nebuchadnezzar's dream
Medo-persian kingdom » Illustrated by » Silver part of image in nebuchadnezzar's dream
Nations » What nations the lord shall destroy
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Daniel 2:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Daniel Praises God And Interprets The King's Dream
31 Thou, O king, wast looking, and lo, a certain great image. This image is mighty, and its brightness excellent; it is standing over-against thee, and its appearance is terrible. 32 This image! its head is of good gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass; 33 its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron, and part of them of clay.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 14:4
That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,
Jeremiah 51:7
A golden cup is Babylon in the hand of Jehovah, Making drunk all the earth, Of its wine drunk have nations, Therefore boast themselves do nations.
Daniel 2:37-39
'Thou, O king, art a king of kings, for the God of the heavens a kingdom, strength, and might, and glory, hath given to thee;
Daniel 4:22
Thou it is, O king, for thou hast become great and mighty, and thy greatness hath become great, and hath reached to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth;
Daniel 4:30
the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?
Daniel 7:4-6
The first is like a lion, and it hath an eagle's wings. I was seeing till that its wings have been plucked, and it hath been lifted up from the earth, and on feet as a man it hath been caused to stand, and a heart of man is given to it.
Daniel 8:3-8
And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain ram is standing before the stream, and it hath two horns, and the two horns are high; and the one is higher than the other, and the high one is coming up last.
Daniel 11:2-20
and, now, truth I declare to thee, Lo, yet three kings are standing for Persia, and the fourth doth become far richer than all, and according to his strength by his riches he stirreth up the whole, with the kingdom of Javan.
Revelation 17:4
and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,