You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
⛓ Read Daniel 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'It will crush whomever it falls on to dust' echoes the stone cut without hands that strikes the image and grinds it to chaff/dust, scattered like summer threshing. Distinctive crushing-to-powder imagery (Dan 2:44-45 adds the kingdom that shall never be destroyed) gives high volume and strong eschatological coherence.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The stone cut without hands shatters the image and becomes a great mountain; the chapter's idiom of mysteries (raza) revealed undergirds Paul's 'know all mysteries.' The mountain motif here is faint, but Daniel's apocalyptic disclosure of 'mysteries' is the strongest OT seedbed for Paul's mysteria language.
Low confidenceDaniel's stone, cut without hands, that shatters the kingdoms and fills the earth, belongs to the same messianic stone-testimonia cluster; the contrast between human builders' rejection and God's exaltation of the stone resonates faintly with Daniel's God-given stone overturning earthly powers. Contested, no verbal link.
Low confidenceDaniel's stone, cut without hands, that destroys the kingdoms and fills the earth feeds the wider stone-testimonia tradition that Christian and Jewish readers associated with Psalm 118's rejected stone. The link here is associative rather than verbal and rests on the established recurrence of these texts together in the Second-Temple stone catena.
Low confidence