Page 3 - 02 The Great Image

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
Nabopollassar. From this point the Jews

reckoned, while the Chaldeans reckoned from

the time he commenced to reign alone, on the

death of his father. Hence, the year here

mentioned was the second year of his reign

according to the Chaldean reckoning, but the

fourth according to the Jewish. It thus appears

that the very next year after Daniel had

completed his preparation to participate in

the affairs of the Chaldean empire, the

providence of God brought him into sudden

and wonderful notoriety throughout all the

kingdom.

VERSE 2. Then the king commanded to call the

magicians, and the astrologers, and the

sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the

king his dreams. So they came and stood

before the king.