Year not stated · Exile

Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the statue

God gave Daniel both the forgotten dream and its meaning: a great statue of four kingdoms, and a stone cut without hands that struck it and grew into a mountain filling the earth, a kingdom that shall never be destroyed (Daniel 2:34-35, 44).

📖 Daniel 2:1–3

1In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him. 2So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king, 3he said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand it.”

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Sources: Scripture — Daniel 2:1-49
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