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A Desperate King's Offer
Commentators note that after threatening death in the previous verse, King Nebuchadnezzar now offers lavish rewards. This "carrot and stick" approach reveals his extreme desperation. The most powerful man on earth was completely helpless and anxious, willing to pay any price or use any tactic to find peace of mind, setting the stage for God's dramatic intervention.
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Albert Barnes
On Daniel 2:6
18th Century
Theologian
But if ye show the dream - If you show what the dream was.
And the interpretation thereof - What it signifie…
Charles Ellicott
On Daniel 2:6
19th Century
Bishop
Rewards. —A word of uncertain meaning. It occurs again Daniel 5:17, and probably is correctly rendered.
John Calvin
On Daniel 2:6
16th Century
Theologian
Here the king, on the other hand, desires to entice them with the hope of gain, to apply themselves to narrating his dream. He had already attempte…
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John Gill
On Daniel 2:6
17th Century
Pastor
But if you show the dream, and the interpretation of it. Which he was extremely intent upon to know; and therefore makes …
Matthew Henry
On Daniel 2:1–13
17th Century
Minister
The greatest individuals are most susceptible to mental cares and troubles, which disturb their rest at night, while the sleep of the laboring pers…