2 Esdras 12:15
King James VersionSource notes
“Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more time than any of the twelve.”
Context
12But it was not expounded unto him, therefore now I declare it unto thee.
13Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
14In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another:
15Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more time than any of the twelve.
16And this do the twelve wings signify, which thou sawest.
17As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
18That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.