# General Information:

Daniel continues talking to the king.

# There will be a fourth kingdom

"There will be a kingdom number four" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal]])

# strong as iron

The fourth kingdom is spoken of as being as strong as iron. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

# It will shatter all these things and crush them

This symbolic language means the fourth kingdom will defeat and replace the other kingdoms. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-symlanguage]])

# all these things

"the previous kingdoms"