Daniel 2:7 (BSB)

They answered a second time, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will give the interpretation.”

From Daniel 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 2:7

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 2:7: Here the excuse of the Magi is narrated. They state the truth that their art only enabled them to discover the interpretation of a dream; but the king wished to know the dream itself. Whence he appears again to have been seized with prodigious fury and became quite implacable.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 2:1-13: We meet with a great difficulty in the date of this story; it is said to be in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan 2:1. Now Daniel was carried to Babylon in his first year, and, it should seem, he was three years under tutors and governors before he was presented to the king, Dan 1:5. How then could this happen in the second year?
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 2:7: They answered again, and said,.... Or, a "second" (e) time; repeating the same words, having nothing more to say: let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation thereof; the first part was but right and reasonable, though the latter was mere boasting and arrogancy. (e) Sept.; "secundo", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Ar.
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Daniel 2:7: They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. (h) In this appears their ignorance, that despite their braggings, yet they were not able to tell the dream, unless he told them of it.