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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
Daniel; and the scene closes with the simple

record, “In that night was Belshazzar the king

of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median

took the kingdom, being about threescore and

two years old.”

Thus the first division of the great image was

completed. Another kingdom had arisen, as

the prophet had declared. The first instalment

of the prophetic dream was fulfilled.

But before we take leave of Babylon, let us

glance forward to the end of its thenceforth

melancholy history. It would naturally be

supposed that the conqueror, becoming

possessed of so noble a city, far surpassing

anything in the world, would have taken it as

the seat of his empire, and maintained it in its

primitive splendor. But God had said that that

city should become a heap, and the habitation