Question: Who are the “mixed” people described in Daniel 2:41,43?
“Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay... And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.”
The word translated “mixed”, “mixture”, and “mixes” in the above verses is a word which is transliterated into English (according to Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon) as “arab”. In the Old Testament, however, this word is not identical with the other words (also transliterated as “arab” or “ereb”) which are often translated “Arab” or “Arabia” or “Arabian”, as referring to the land or peoples of that name.
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Author: George Booker
Keywords: Ten toes, Arabs, Israel's enemies, Surrounded by enemies, Iron and clay, Clay and iron, Nebuchadnezzar's image, Mixed race, Mixed people, Palestinians, Middle East, Islam
Bible reference(s): Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 6:1, Isaiah 13:20, Jeremiah 3:2, 1 Maccabees 11:17, 1 Maccabees 11:39, Daniel 2:41, Daniel 2:43
Source: “Arab/Mixed?”, The Agora.
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