Daniel 2:31
Good News Translation
"Your Majesty, in your vision you saw standing before you a giant statue, bright and shining, and terrifying to look at.

New Revised Standard Version
“You were looking, O king, and lo! there was a great statue. This statue was huge, its brilliance extraordinary; it was standing before you, and its appearance was frightening.

Contemporary English Version
Your Majesty, what you saw standing in front of you was a huge and terrifying statue, shining brightly.

New American Bible
“In your vision, O king, you saw a statue, very large and exceedingly bright, terrifying in appearance as it stood before you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.

sawest.

Daniel 7:3-17 And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of the sea. . . .

Matthew 4:8 Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

Luke 4:5 And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

terrible.

Isaiah 13:11 And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

Isaiah 25:3-5 Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee. . . .

Ezekiel 28:7 Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.

Habakkuk 1:7 They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.

Context
Daniel Interprets the Dream
30To me also this secret is revealed, not by any wisdom that I have more than all men alive: but that the interpretation might be made manifest to the king, and thou mightest know the thought of thy mind. 31Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.32The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the arms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass.…
Cross References
Daniel 3:1
King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of Babylon.

Daniel 4:36


Habakkuk 1:7
They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their judgment, and their burden proceed.

Daniel 2:30
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