11. What was to be the nature of the next kingdom after Babylon?
"After thee shall arise another kingdom _inferior to thee_." Verse 39, first part.
"In that night was _Belshazzar_ the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old." Dan. 5:30, 31. See also verses 1, 2.
13. To whom was Belshazzar's kingdom given?
"Thy kingdom is divided, and given to _the Medes and Persians_." Verse 28.
14. By what is the Medo-Persian Empire represented in the great image?
"The breast and arms of silver." Dan. 2:32.
15. By what is Grecia, the kingdom succeeding Medo-Persia, represented in the image?
"His belly and his thighs of _brass_." Verse 32. "And another _third kingdom of brass_, which shall bear rule over all the earth." Verse 39.
"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_." Verse 40.
17. What scripture shows that the Roman emperors ruled the world?
"And it came to pass in those days, that _there went out a __ decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed_." Luke 2:1.
NOTE.--Describing the Roman conquests, Gibbon uses the very imagery employed in the vision of Daniel 2. He says: "The arms of the republic, sometimes vanquished in battle, always victorious in war, advanced with rapid steps to the Euphrates, the Danube, the Rhine, and the ocean; and the images of _gold_, or _silver_, or _brass_, that might serve to represent the nations and their kings, were successively broken by the _iron_ monarchy of Rome."--_"__Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,__"__ chap. 38, par. I, under __"__General Observations,__"__ at the close of the chapter._
18. What was indicated by the mixture of clay and iron in the feet and toes of the image?
"And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, _the kingdom shall be divided_." Dan. 2:41.
19. In what prophetic language was the varying strength of the ten kingdoms of the divided empire indicated?
"And as the toes of the feet were _part of iron, and part of clay_, so the kingdom shall be _partly strong, and partly broken_ [margin, _brittle_]." Verse 42.