Daniel 2:23 (BSB)
To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, because You have given me wisdom and power. And now You have made known to me what we have requested, for You have made known to us the dream of the king.”
From Daniel 2. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 2:23
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 2:23: Daniel turns his discourse to God. I confess to thee, says he, O God of my fathers, and praise thee Here he more openly distinguishes the God of the Israelites from all the fictions of the nations. Nor does he use this epithet in vain, when he praises the God of his fathers; for he wishes to reduce to nothing all the fabrications of the...
- 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 2:23: I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God my fathers,.... His remote ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and more near progenitors, to whom God had made promises, and revealed his secrets in time past, and still continued his favours to Daniel; for which he was abundantly thankful, and owned and confessed the goodness of God to him, and praised him on account of it...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 2:23: thee . . . thee--He ascribes all the glory to God. God of my fathers--Thou hast shown Thyself the same God of grace to me, a captive exile, as Thou didst to Israel of old and this on account of the covenant made with our "fathers" (Luk 1:54-55; compare Psa 106:45). given me wisdom and might--Thou being the fountain of both; referring to Dan 2:20.