Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 4:4-9
2. The king’s frustration over his second dream 4:4-9 read more
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Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 4:8
Daniel may not have been with the king’s other advisers because he occupied a position in the government that required his presence elsewhere. The king described Daniel by using both his Hebrew and Babylonian names. This would have had the double effect of causing those who read this decree to recognize Daniel by his common Babylonian name, and to honor Daniel’s God (cf. Daniel 4:37). Nebuchadnezzar probably meant that "a spirit of the holy gods" (cf. Daniel 4:17)-in a pagan sense-indwelt... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Daniel 4:9
Nebuchadnezzar addressed Daniel as the chief of the magicians. By this he probably meant that Daniel was his chief interpreter of the future, not that he was the head of a group of magicians. [Note: Leupold, p. 178.] Daniel’s fame in this regard had evidently become well known (cf. Ezekiel 28:3). read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 4:1-37
Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream and its fulfilmentIn the form of a proclamation Nebuchadnezzar records his experience of the power of the Most high God (Daniel 4:1-3). He had a dream which none of his wise men could interpret (Daniel 4:4-7). He then called Daniel, and told him the dream, in which he had seen a lofty and spreading tree, which at the bidding of an angel had been cut down, its stump being bound among the grass for seven ’times’ (Daniel 4:8-18). Daniel explained that the tree was... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 4:8
(8) At the last.—On account of his position as the chief of the governors of the wise men, Daniel would not “come in” till last.Belteshazzar.—See Note on Daniel 1:7; Introduction, § 6.The spirit . . .—He means his own gods, for though he recognised Jehovah to be a “high God,” yet he acknowledged Him only as one out of many. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Daniel 4:9
(9) Troubleth thee.—Literally, goadeth thee, or, causeth thee this difficulty. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Daniel 4:1-37
Daniel 4:4-5 'Remember,' Mr. F. W. H. Myers once wrote to a friend, 'that first of all a man must, from the torpor of a foul tranquillity, have his soul delivered unto war.' Reference. IV. 4, 5, 7. S. Baring-Gould, Village Preaching for a Year, vol. ii. p. 183. Daniel 4:22-30 Can we believe that He whose words were so terrible against the pride of Egypt and Babylon, against that haughty insolence in men on which not Hebrew prophets only, but the heathen poets of Greece, looked with such... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:1-37
THE BABYLONIAN CEDAR, AND THE STRICKEN DESPOTTHRICE already, in these magnificent stories, had Nebuchadrezzar been taught to recognise the existence and to reverence the power of God. In this chapter he is represented as having been brought to a still more overwhelming conviction, and to an open acknowledgment of God’s supremacy, by the lightning-stroke of terrible calamity.The chapter is dramatically thrown into the form of a decree which, alter his recovery and shortly before his death, the... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Daniel 4:1-37
CHAPTER 4 The Tree Vision of Nebuchadnezzar 1. The king’s proclamation (Daniel 4:1-3 ) 2. The king relates the tree vision (Daniel 4:4-18 ) 3. Daniel interprets the vision (Daniel 4:19-27 ) 4. The tree vision fulfilled, the king’s abasement and his restoration, (Daniel 4:28-37 ) Daniel 4:1-3 . This chapter is in form, at least in part, of a proclamation. This proclamation must have been written after the king had passed through the experience recorded in this chapter. Daniel 4:4-18 .... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Daniel 4:9
9. spirit of the holy gods—Nebuchadnezzar speaks as a heathen, who yet has imbibed some notions of the true God. Hence he speaks of "gods" in the plural but gives the epithet "holy," which applies to Jehovah alone, the heathen gods making no pretension to purity, even in the opinion of their votaries ( :-; compare Isaiah 63:11). "I know" refers to his knowledge of Daniel's skill many years before (Daniel 2:8); hence he calls him "master of the magicians." troubleth—gives thee difficulty in... read more