Daniel 4:6

6 So I ordered all the wise advisers in Babylon to be brought to me to tell me the dream's meaning.

Daniel 4:6 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:6

Therefore made I a decree
Published a proclamation; signifying it was his mind and will to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before him;
all together, supposing that one or other of them, or by consulting together, would be able to explain things to his satisfaction, and make him more easy: that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream;
for though they could not tell the interpretation of his former dream, because he could not relate to them the dream itself; which, if he could, they promised him the interpretation; but now he could remember it, and therefore might expect they would make known the interpretation of it to him.

Daniel 4:6 In-Context

4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was living comfortably at home. I was prosperous while living in my palace.

5 I had a dream that terrified me. The visions I had while I was asleep frightened me.

6 So I ordered all the wise advisers in Babylon to be brought to me to tell me the dream's meaning.

7 The magicians, psychics, astrologers, and fortunetellers came to me. I told them the dream, but they couldn't tell me its meaning.

8 Finally, Daniel came to me. (He had been renamed Belteshazzar after my god [Bel].) The spirit of the holy gods is in him. I told him the dream: