Text: Daniel 2:34-35
OT Text Referred to: Isaiah 41:15-16
Subject: Crushing empires to chaff by divine power
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Daniel 2:34-35 describes the stone striking the statue, which becomes "like chaff on the threshing floor in summer" (כְּעוּר מִן־אִדְּרֵי־קַיִט) and is carried away by the wind so "not a trace of them could be found." Isaiah 41:15-16 deploys virtually identical imagery: Israel as a threshing sledge will crush mountains and reduce hills to מוֹץ (motz, "chaff"), and "a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them." The sequence in both texts -- crushing, reducing to chaff, wind carrying away -- is structurally identical. Daniel's stone-kingdom vision appears to draw on Isaiah's earlier threshing metaphor, recasting Israel's promised victory over oppressors as an eschatological kingdom that displaces all human empires.
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Text: Isaiah 41:15-16
OT Text Referred to: Daniel 2:34-35
Subject: crushing mountains to chaff and wind-blown dust
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Isaiah 41:15-16 promises that God will make Israel "a threshing sledge, new and sharp" (מוֹרַג חָרוּץ חָדָשׁ, morag charutz chadash) that will "thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff" carried away by the wind. Daniel 2:34-35 uses strikingly similar imagery: the divine stone strikes the statue and the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold "became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer" (כְּעוּר מִן־אִדְּרֵי־קַיִט), carried away by the wind until "not a trace of them could be found." Both passages share the sequence of crushing powerful entities to chaff, followed by wind dispersal, depicting the total annihilation of opposition to God's kingdom. Isaiah applies this to Israel's enemies generally; Daniel specifies the succession of world empires destroyed by God's inbreaking kingdom.