Daniel 4:10 (BSB)
In these visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this come to pass: There was a tree in the midst of the land, and its height was great.
From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 4:10
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 4:10: Here Nebuchadnezzar relates his dream, of which the interpretation will follow in its place. Yet because this narrative is cold and useless unless we should say something of the subject itself, it is necessary to make some remarks — the rest shall be deferred.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 4:4-18: Nebuchadnezzar, before he relates the judgments of God that had been wrought upon him for his pride, gives an account of the fair warning he had of them before they came, a due regard to which might have prevented them.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 4:10: Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed,.... So things appeared to my fancy thus; they ran in my head or brain in a dream in my bed, as if I saw them with my eyes, as follows; for so I thought, I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth; an emblem of a powerful prince well settled, and...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 4:10: tree--So the Assyrian is compared to a "cedar" (Eze 31:3; compare Eze 17:24). in the midst of the earth--denoting its conspicuous position as the center whence the imperial authority radiated in all directions.