Then a rock cut “not by human hands” (Daniel 2:34) hit the foot of the statue, and the whole image “became like chaff on a threshing floor,” while the rock “became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:35). Its head was “made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay” (Daniel 2:32-33). The dream featured a huge, glorious statue of a man. The next morning, he went to the king and told him about the dream. God revealed the dream to him, and Daniel and his friends praised God (Daniel 2:19-23). When Daniel heard of this, he was determined to prove God’s power to the king (Daniel 2:18).ĭaniel asked the king for some time to discover the dream, and then he proceeded to pray all night with three of his fellow exiles. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among men” (Daniel 2:11). The worried magi replied, “What the king asks is too difficult. The penalty for failure was death: every magician, enchanter, sorcerer and astrologer in the kingdom would be executed. So, not only did the royal wise men have to provide the interpretation of the dream, they had to recount the dream itself. However, he added an unprecedented requirement: “Tell me what my dream was and interpret it” (Daniel 2:5). This was standard procedure in a culture that placed a high importance on dreams and their meaning. The king called for his magi to interpret the nightmare.
One night, Nebuchadnezzar awoke frightened by a dream. When God granted Daniel the wisdom to interpret the king’s dream, it launched Daniel’s long career as a political leader, trusted adviser, and well-known prophet. Daniel was one of those deported from Israel and granted an education in the king’s palace. King Nebuchadnezzar reigned from 605 to 562 B.C., greatly expanding the Babylonian Empire, conquering Jerusalem and deporting the Jews in the process. Daniel 2 tells how Daniel interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, in which God provided an overview of world events in the millennia yet to come. One of those people was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. At certain times, God has used dreams to communicate with people.
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