NEBUOHADNEZZAR. What follows is evidently. proclamation. Given probably in 454 B.C., the last of the seven years of his "madness"(461-454 B.C.), the same year as the decree of Astyages, Daniel being then fifty-nine. PEOPLE. the peoples. NATIONS. races. LANGUAGES. tongues.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGHT. have thought. WONDERS. astonishing things. HIGH. most HIGH. GOD. Chaldee. _'elaha'_ (emphatic). App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW GREAT, &C. Compare Daniel 4:34; Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
DREAM. One of twenty recorded dreams. See note on Genesis 20:3. VISIONS OF MY HEAD, &C. Compare Daniel 4:10, and Daniel 2:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO BRING IN ALL THE WISE MEN, &C. Probably done from motives of state policy, or acting on Daniel's own advice.. writer clever enough to be. forger would be wise enough not to leave the loophole alleged.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAGICIANS, &C. See note on Daniel 1:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
BELTESHAZZAR. See note on Daniel 1:7. GOD. Chaldee. _'elah._ App-4. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. GODS. Chaldee. _'elahin_ (plural) App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
MASTER OF THE MAGICIANS. Daniel still held the position given him in Daniel 2:48. SECRET. Chaldee. _raz._ Same word as in Daniel 2: (except Daniel 2:22). See notes on Daniel 2:18; Daniel 2:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAW. I was gazing. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
A WATCHER AND AN HOLY ONE. Figure of speech _Hendiadys_ (App-6). an holy angel. WATCHER. A Chaldee name (_'ir_) for an angelic being, watching over the affairs of men. Compare: Daniel 4:17; Daniel 4:23. Not the same root as in Daniel 9:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STUMP OF HIS ROOTS. his root-trunk. TENDER GRASS. herbage. WET. drenched.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET HIS HEART, &C. The figure here changes from. tree to that of. beast, mentioned in Daniel 4:15. MAN'S. Chaldee. _'anasha'._ App-14. SEVEN TIMES. The inscriptions state that there were several years in which Nebuchadnezzar did nothing,... [ Continue Reading ]
DEMAND. mandate. RULETH. hath dominion. BASEST. lowest.... [ Continue Reading ]
ASTONIED. astonished. ONE HOUR. Chaldee. _sha_. _ah_. a moment, as Daniel 4:33; Daniel 3:6; Daniel 3:15; Daniel 5:5. THE KING SPAKE. Note the change of speakers. ANSWERED AND SAID. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRIVE THEE, &C. The mental disease of Nebuchadnezzar is rare. It is called _Lycanthropy_ (from Greek, _lukos_. a wolf, and _anthropos =_. man), because the man imagines himself to be. wolf, or some other animal. MEN. Chaldee plural of. _anash_. App-14. MAKE. suffer.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEAVENS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for God Who dwells there. Compare Luke 15:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
COUNSEL. advice. Not the same word as in Daniel 3:24; Daniel 3:27; Daniel 4:36; Daniel 6:7. BREAK OFF. This is rendered in the Vulgate (the Authorized version of the Church of Rome) by "redeem"; but the Chaldee _perak_. break off. First occurs in Hebrew (_parak_) Genesis 27:40; Exodus 32:2; Exodus 3... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THIS CAME. Here the change is to the historical narration.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. answered. GREAT BABYLON. The German Orient Society's excavations during recent years have shown how "great" it was. See _Records of the Past,_ vol. i, p, &c. THAT. HAVE BUILT. Everywhere this is repeated by Nebuchadnezzar on bricks, pavements, walls, &c. HOUSE OF THE KINGDOM. the royal pal... [ Continue Reading ]
I NEBUCHADNEZZAR, &C. Here the king again speaks. This corresponds with the Proclamation (verses: Daniel 4:1), and is the ground of its being made. THE MOST HIGH. Compare verses: Daniel 4:17; Daniel 4:32. I PRAISED, &C. Modern critics are stumbled because Nebuchadnezzar should do this while he was... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL, &C. Compare Job 34:14; Job 34:15; Job 34:19.Isaiah 40:15; Isaiah 40:22. AND HE, &C. Compare 1 Samuel 3:18; Job 23:13.Psalms 33:9; Psalms 115:3;... [ Continue Reading ]
COUNSELLERS. See note on Daniel 3:24. LORDS. See note on Daniel 5:1, and "princes", Daniel 5:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
I NEBUCHADNEZZAR, &C. This corresponds with verses: Daniel 4:1. See the Structure, p. 1185.... [ Continue Reading ]