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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 2-The Great Image
successors of Nebuchadnezzar, the
authority above quoted adds: —
“He died in 561 B. C., and was succeeded by his
son Evil-merodach who reigned only two
years. Nabonadius (or Labynetus), who
became king in 555 B. C., formed an alliance
with Croesus against Cyrus the Great. He
appears to have shared the royal power with
his son, Belshazzar, whose mother was a
daughter of Nebuchadnezzar. Cyrus besieged
Babylon, which he took by stratagem in 538 B.
C., and with the death of Belshazzar, whom the
Persians killed, the kingdom of Babylon
ceased to exist.”
When we say that the image of Daniel 2
symbolizes the four great prophetic universal
monarchies, and reckon Babylon as the first of
these, it is asked how this can be true, when
