Daniel 5:20

20 Mais son cœur s'étant élevé et son esprit s'étant affermi dans l'orgueil, il fut renversé de son trône royal et dépouillé de sa gloire;

Daniel 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened it
pride
When his heart was elated with his successes and victories, with the enlargement of his dominions, and with his grandeur and glory he had arrived unto; and his pride increased yet more, till he was strengthened and hardened in it: or, "to deal proudly" ^F21; and behave haughtily to God and man: or, "to do wickedly", as Jarchi interprets it; for pride and haughtiness of mind puts men, especially great men, kings and monarchs, on doing things extremely vile and wicked: he was deposed from his kingly throne;
not by his nobles and subjects, but by the hand of God, which struck him with madness, and made him unfit for government; obliged him to quit the throne, and to range among the beasts of the field, as is afterwards observed: and they took his glory from him;
the watchers, the angels, or the divine Persons that ordered the tree to be cut down to the roots, ( Daniel 4:14 Daniel 4:17 Daniel 4:23 ) , or it may be rendered impersonally, "and his glory was taken from him" ^F23; his glory as a man, being deprived of his reason, and acting like a brute beast; and his glory as a king, which departed from him for a season, while he was driven from men, from his royal palace and court, and lived among beasts, and fed as they did, as follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (hdzhl) "ad superbe agendum", Junius & Tremellius; "ad superbiendum", Piscator, Michaelis; "ut superbe ageret", Cocceius.
F23 (hnm wydeh hyrqyw) "et gloria ejus ablata est", V. L.; "honor ejus translatus fuit", Michaelis.

Daniel 5:20 In-Context

18 O roi! le Dieu souverain avait donné à Nébucadnetsar, ton père, la royauté et la grandeur, la gloire et la magnificence.

19 Et à cause de la grandeur qu'il lui avait donnée, tous les peuples, nations et langues tremblaient devant lui et le redoutaient. Il faisait mourir ceux qu'il voulait, et il laissait la vie à ceux à qui il voulait. Il élevait ceux qu'il voulait, et abaissait ceux qu'il voulait.

20 Mais son cœur s'étant élevé et son esprit s'étant affermi dans l'orgueil, il fut renversé de son trône royal et dépouillé de sa gloire;

21 Il fut chassé du milieu des enfants des hommes; son cœur fut rendu semblable à celui des bêtes, et son habitation fut avec les ânes sauvages; il fut nourri d'herbe comme les bœufs, et son corps fut trempé de la rosée du ciel, jusqu'à ce qu'il reconnût que le Dieu souverain domine sur le règne des hommes, et qu'il y établit qui il lui plaît.

22 Et toi aussi, Belshatsar, son fils, tu n'as point humilié ton cœur, quoique tu susses toutes ces choses.