Daniel 2:20 (BSB)
and declared: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him.
From Daniel 2. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 2:20
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 2:20: Daniel here pursues his narrative, and thanks God after King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream had been made known to him, while he relates the sense of the words which he had used. May God’s name be blessed, says he, from age to age We ought daily to wish for this; for when we pray that God’s name may be hallowed, continuance is denoted under this form of prayer.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 2:14-23: When the king sent for his wise men to tell them his dream, and the interpretation of it (Dan 2:2), Daniel, it seems, was not summoned to appear among them; the king, though he was highly pleased with him when he examined him, and thought him ten times wiser than the rest of his wise men, yet forgot him when he had most occasion for...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 2:20: Daniel answered and said,.... That is, he began his prayer, as Jacchiades observes, or his thanksgiving, and expressed it in the following manner: blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: a form of blessing God, or a wish that he may be blessed by men for evermore; for there is that in his name, in his nature, in his perfections, and in...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 2:20: answered--responded to God's goodness by praises. name of God--God in His revelation of Himself by acts of love, "wisdom, and might" (Jer 32:19).