en_tn/dan/02/39.md

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General Information:

Daniel continues talking to the king.

another kingdom will arise

In the king's dream his kingdom is gold so an inferior kingdom would be silver. Alternate translation: "another kingdom, which is of silver, will arise" or "another kingdom, which is represented by the silver parts of the statue, will arise" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit and rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-symlanguage)

yet a third kingdom of bronze

This is symbolic language where the bronze of parts of the statue represent a future kingdom. Alternate translation: "then still another kingdom, which is represented by the bronze parts of the statue" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-symlanguage and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)

a third kingdom

"kingdom number three" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal)