Daniel 4:2

2 (3-99) The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders towards me. It hath seemed good to me, therefore, to publish

Daniel 4:2 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 4:2

I thought it good
Or, "fair" F25 and beautiful, highly becoming me, what was my duty, and what might be profitable and beneficial to others, and make for the glory of the great God of heaven and earth: to show the signs and wonders the high God hath wrought toward me;
to declare by writing the wonderful things God, who is above all, the most high God, had done unto him, by giving him a wonderful dream, exactly describing his future case and condition, and then as wonderful an interpretation of it, and which was as wonderfully fulfilled, and, after all, in a wonderful manner restoring him to the exercise of his reason, and the administration of his kingdom, after both had departed from him.


FOOTNOTES:

F25 (rpv) "pulchrum", Montanus, Grotius, Gejerus, Michaelis; "decet me", Junius & Tremellius.

Daniel 4:2 In-Context

1 (3-98) Nabuchodonosor, the king, to all peoples, nations, and tongues, that dwell in all the earth, peace be multiplied unto you.
2 (3-99) The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders towards me. It hath seemed good to me, therefore, to publish
3 (3-100) His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, because they are mighty: and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.
4 (4-1) I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace:
5 (4-2) I saw a dream that affrighted me: and my thoughts in my bed, and the visions of my head, troubled me.
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