Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Daniel 4:31
Verse Daniel 4:31. While the word was in the king's mouth] How awful to a victorious and proud king: "Thy kingdom is departed from thee!" All thy goods and gods are gone in a moment!
Verse Daniel 4:31. While the word was in the king's mouth] How awful to a victorious and proud king: "Thy kingdom is departed from thee!" All thy goods and gods are gone in a moment!
WHILE THE WORD WAS IN THE KING’S MOUTH - In the very act of speaking - thus showing that there could be no doubt as to the connection between the crime and the punishment. THERE FELL A VOICE FROM HEAV...
CHAPTER 4 THE TREE VISION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR _ 1. The king's proclamation (Daniel 4:1)_ 2. The king relates the tree vision (Daniel 4:4) 3. Daniel interprets the vision (Daniel 4:19) 4. The tree vi...
DANIEL 4. This chapter takes us again into the realm of Apocalyptic. Nebuchadnezzar dreams a fresh dream. This time he sees a gigantic tree, the top of which reached to heaven, full of leaves and frui...
The fulfilment of the dream....
The divine rebuke alights immediately upon the king. _there fell a voice from heaven_ such as was called by the later Jews a _Bath Ḳôl_, lit. -the daughter of a voice" (the accompanying verb being usu...
f. DESPOT'S DERANGEMENT TEXT: Daniel 4:28-33 28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. 30 The king spake and s...
While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. WHILE THE WORD WAS IN THE KING'S MOUT...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM AND ITS FULFILMENT In the form of a proclamation Nebuchadnezzar records his experience of the power of the Most high God (Daniel 4:1). He had a dream which none of his wise men...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 4 V1 I, King Nebuchadnezzar, send this message to everyone in the world. I am writing to the people in every country who speak every la...
A VOICE. — By this he would be reminded of his dream (Daniel 4:14), when he heard the watcher “cry aloud.”...
_[Daniel 4:28]_ עֹ֗וד מִלְּתָא֙ בְּ פֻ֣ם מַלְכָּ֔א...
THE BABYLONIAN CEDAR, AND THE STRICKEN DESPOT THRICE already, in these magnificent stories, had Nebuchadrezzar been taught to recognise the existence and to reverence the power of God. In this chapte...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S HUMILIATION Daniel 4:19-37 Beyond doubt Nebuchadnezzar was one of the most illustrious princes the world has ever seen. The discoveries which Layard commenced among the mounds of the...
The last story connected with the reign of Nebuchadnezzar consisted of the king's own manifesto, setting forth the dealings of the Most High God with him. The opening ascription of praise is most rema...
Heaven: God having looked on me with pity. St. Augustine (ep. 111. (Calmet) or 122. (Worthington)) seems to think that he was saved; and the author of the B. on Pred. & grace, (chap. 15) attributes to...
Reader! how truly affecting is this history! What an awful testimony in confirmation, that the judgment of the enemies of God's Christ, lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Some curious...
It now _follows, _— _While the speech was in the mouth of the king, a voice descended from heaven _—_They say unto thee, O King Nebuchadnezzar, thy kingdom has departed from thee! _God does not now ad...
In chapter 4 we see the manifestation of human pride; the king glories in the work of his hands, as though he had created his own greatness. This pride brings judgment. Power is reduced to the conditi...
WHILE THE WORD WAS IN THE KING'S MOUTH, THERE FELL A VOICE FROM HEAVEN,.... Before the king had done speaking in the above boasting manner, an articulate voice from heaven was heard by him, and all ab...
While the word [was] in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. Ver. 31. While the word was in the...
_All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar_ With what admirable propriety is the person changed here! the six following verses being delivered in the third person. But in the 34th, Nebuchadnezzar, ha...
THE INTERPRETATION AND THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DREAM...
While the word was in the king's mouth, before he had finished his blasphemous utterance, THERE FELL A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, with great suddenness, which made the consequences stand out all the more by w...
28-37 Pride and self-conceit are sins that beset great men. They are apt to take that glory to themselves which is due to God only. While the proud word was in the king's mouth, the powerful word cam...
THERE FELL A VOICE FROM HEAVEN: this made the judgment more remarkable, and argued the sin more provoking, and the anger of God more just against him. Sudden judgments are most dreadful; whereof we ha...
Daniel 4:31 While H5751 word H4406 kings H4430 mouth H6433 voice H7032 fell H5308 (H8754) from H4481 heaven...
‘While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken. The kingdom is departed from you. And you will be driven from men, and you...
Daniel 4 I. In this chapter we have a solemn and instructive warning against pride and vain-glory. II. A sad illustration of the proverb that pride goeth before a fall. III. A beautiful illustratio...
CONTENTS: Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation. The true vision and its interpretation. Vision fulfilled; the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. CHARACTERS: God, Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Astrologers. CONCLUSION:...
The three first verses of this chapter in Theodotian and the Vulgate, are appended to the third chapter; but seem to stand better as in the English, being the introduction to the dream. Daniel 4:5. _...
_Wherefore, O King, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee._ DANIEL’S COUNSEL Daniel gives counsel to the king like a man of God, directing him to break off his sins by righteousness, and his iniqui...
MOMENTS, OF ASTONISHMENT “Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him.” There are moments of astonishment in all true ministries. The word “hour”...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar has another dream, and Daniel again is the only one of his officials able to interpret it. This dream concerns Nebuchadnezzar’s own need to acknowledge that th...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 4:28 A year went by, but Nebuchadnezzar was unchanged. The view from THE ROOF OF THE ROYAL PALACE OF BABYLON included numerous ornate temples, the hanging gardens, and the outer...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XVI.—NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S MADNESS (Chap. Daniel 4:28) “Riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure to all generations?” History presents us with many and great contrasts occurri...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 4:1 THE MADNESS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. We follow here the division of chapters which we find in our English Version, and as, indeed, in all modern versions. The Aramaic concludes the t...
Now Nebuchadnezzar the king, [a proclamation] unto all the people, nation, languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that th...
1 Samuel 13:14; 1 Samuel 15:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Acts 12:22;...