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arise = stand up. Chaldee. kum = to begin to exist. See note on Exo_1:8.
another. The kingdom of Medo-Persia, which succeeded Babylon by occupying Jerusalem (2Ch_36:22).
inferior. As silver is inferior to gold, in value and in specific gravity (see note on Dan_2:32) so the second kingdom was inferior to the first. The successive kingdoms are marked by evolution (or rather, devolution). In the first (Babylon) the king possessed absolute power ("whom he would he slew", &c, Dan_5:19); the second [Medo-Persian] was a government by law which was superior to the king (Dan_6:1, Dan_6:14, &c).
third kingdom. This again was "inferior", as being less despotic.