Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people ... - The Syriac here has, “Nebuchadnezzar the king wrote to all people, etc.” Many manuscripts in th…

Peace ...—For this mode of address, compare Ezra 4:17; Ezra 7:12. The date of the events recorded in this chapter canno…

Some connect these verses to the end of the third chapter, but there is no reason for this. It will clearly appear from the context that the edict …

Nebuchadnezzar the king. This and the two following verses are annexed to the preceding chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and …

The beginning and end of this chapter lead us to hope that Nebuchadnezzar was a monument to the power of divine grace and the riches of divine merc…