In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
⛓ 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed' — the prayer 'Let your Kingdom come' draws directly on Daniel's vision of God's everlasting kingdom breaking into history.
High confidence"Your kingdom come" draws on the apocalyptic expectation that the God of heaven will set up an everlasting kingdom that shall never be destroyed. Daniel is the chief Second-Temple source for the coming-kingdom hope the petition voices.
Medium confidenceDaniel's vision that the God of heaven will set up an everlasting kingdom underlies the Pharisees' question of when the Kingdom of God would come and Jesus' redefinition of its arrival. Moderate Volume from the shared 'kingdom of God' eschatology; Daniel is the key Second-Temple source for the expectation Jesus is correcting.
Medium confidenceThe expectation that 'the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed' supplies the apocalyptic content of Jesus' 'kingdom of God.' Volume is conceptual but the specific phrase 'kingdom of God/heaven' has its clearest Second-Temple anchor in Daniel; coherence with Mark's 'the time is fulfilled' (an apocalyptic timetable) is strong.
Medium confidenceEcho8
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Daniel's vision of the God of heaven setting up an indestructible kingdom underlies Mark's 'Kingdom of God' language as a revealed eschatological secret. Recurrence of the Danielic kingdom motif throughout Mark strengthens the coherence even though 4:11 cites no text.
Medium confidence'The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed' grounds 'the Kingdom of Heaven' (v.17); Matthew's signature 'Kingdom of Heaven' reflects Danielic heaven-kingdom expectation. Thematic, recurrent.
Medium confidenceThe kingdom of God that breaks and supplants all other kingdoms; 'the Kingdom of God has come upon you' resonates with Daniel's eschatological kingdom overthrowing rival dominions (here Satan's).
Medium confidencePaul reasons and persuades about the Kingdom of God for three months. Daniel's God of heaven who sets up an everlasting kingdom is a chief OT source of the kingdom-of-God language. Faint, since the phrase is summary. Contested.
Low confidencePaul resolves in the spirit on a journey culminating at Jerusalem and Rome, the imperial center; Daniel's vision of God's kingdom set up in the days of the Gentile empires gives a backdrop to the gospel's march toward Rome. Very faint, contested.
Low confidenceThe God of heaven setting up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed and that breaks all others supplies the apocalyptic backdrop for a kingdom arriving 'with power.' The volume is faint and the verbal overlap general, but the coherence with Mark's kingdom proclamation is real.
Low confidence'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand' draws on Daniel's vision of the God of heaven setting up an everlasting kingdom that shall never be destroyed. Faint verbal contact ('the God of heaven... a kingdom'); supplies the 'kingdom of heaven' eschatological background distinctive to Matthew.
Low confidenceThe God of heaven setting up an everlasting kingdom that fills the earth resonates with the universal, age-spanning ('to the end of the age') scope of the commission; faint apocalyptic kingdom-extension motif.
Low confidence