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The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don`t make known to me the dream and the interpretation of it, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
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God's Hand in a Tyrant's Rage
Commentators see God's sovereign purpose behind Nebuchadnezzar's seemingly irrational and brutal fury. As John Calvin explains, God used the king's impossible demand and cruel threats to publicly expose the powerlessness of the pagan magicians. This set the stage for the divine miracle that would come through Daniel, ensuring that God alone would receive the glory.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me — The Vulgate renders this, “Sermo recessit a me” — “The wor…
19th Century
Anglican
Is gone from me.— This difficult word, whose etymology is very uncertain, appears only here and in Daniel 2:8. It seems to mean, “…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the king requires from the Chaldeans more than they claimed to provide him. For although their boasting, as we have said, was foolish in promi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans In the same language they spoke to him: the thing is gone from me…
The greatest individuals are most susceptible to mental cares and troubles, which disturb their rest at night, while the sleep of the laboring pers…
