Daniel 2:12
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This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon.
Read Daniel 2:12 Using Other Translations
For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
The king was furious when he heard this, and he ordered that all the wise men of Babylon be executed.
What does Daniel 2:12 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Daniel 2:12
For this cause the king was angry, and very
furious
Not only because they could not tell his dream, and the
interpretation of it; but because they represented him as
requiring a thing unreasonable and impossible, which had never
been done by any potentate but himself, and could never be
answered but by the gods: this threw him into an excess of wrath
and fury; which in those tyrannical and despotic princes was
exceeding great and terrible: and commanded to destroy all
the wise men of Babylon;
not only those that were now in his presence, but all others;
concluding from this instance that they were an useless set of
men, yea, deceivers and impostors.
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