Daniel 2:29 (BSB)
As you lay on your bed, O king, your thoughts turned to the future, and the Revealer of Mysteries made known to you what will happen.
From Daniel 2. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 2:29
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 2:29: He again confirms what I have just touched upon, for he wished to impress this upon the king’s mind — that God was the author of the dream, to induce the king to prepare for its interpretation with becoming sobriety, modesty, and docility.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 2:24-30: We have here the introduction to Daniel's declaring the dream, and the interpretation of it. I. He immediately bespoke the reversing of the sentence against the wise men of Babylon, Dan 2:24. He went with all speed to Arioch, to tell him that his commission was now superseded: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 2:29: As for thee, O king,.... So far as thou hast any concern in this matter, or with respect to thee, the following was thy case; these the circumstances and situation in which thou wert: thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, which should come to pass hereafter; as he lay on his bed, either sleeping or waking, very probably the latter, his thoughts...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 2:29: God met with a revelation Nebuchadnezzar, who had been meditating on the future destiny of his vast empire.