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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
the Medes, which was to result in the utter

subversion of the Babylonian kingdom.

Cyaxeres, king of the Medes, who is called

“Darius” in Daniel 5:31, summoned to his aid

his nephew, Cyrus, of the Persian line, in his

efforts against the Babylonians. The war was

prosecuted with uninterrupted success on the

part of the Medes and Persians, until, in the

eighteenth year of Nabonadius (the third year

of his son Belshazzar), Cyrus laid siege to

Babylon, the only city in all the East which

then held out against him. The Babylonians,

gathered within their impregnable walls, with

provision on hand for twenty years, and land

within the limits of their broad city sufficient

to furnish food for the inhabitants and

garrison for an indefinite period, scoffed at

Cyrus from their lofty walls, and derided his

seemingly useless efforts to bring them into