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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
VERSE 39. And after thee shall arise another

kingdom inferior to thee, and another third

kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over

all the earth.

Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-three years,

and was succeeded by the following rulers:

His son, Evil-merodach, two years;

Neriglissar, his son-in-law, four years;

Laborosoarchod, Neriglissar’s son, nine

months, which, being less than one year, is not

counted in the canon of Ptolemy; and lastly,

Nabonadius, whose son, Belshazzar, grandson

of Nebuchadnezzar, was associated with him

on the throne, and with whom that kingdom

came to an end.

In the first year of Neriglissar, only two years

after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, broke out

that fatal war between the Babylonians and