Daniel 4:2 (BSB)
I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.
From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 4:2
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 4:1-3: Here is, I. Something of form, which was usual in writs, proclamations, or circular letters, issued by the king, Dan 4:1. The royal style which Nebuchadnezzar makes use of has nothing in it of pomp or fancy, but is plain, short, and unaffected - Nebuchadnezzar the king.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 4:2: I thought it good,.... Or, "fair" (y) and beautiful, highly becoming me, what was my duty, and what might be profitable and beneficial to others, and make for the glory of the great God of heaven and earth: to show the signs and wonders the high God hath wrought toward me; to declare by writing the wonderful things God, who is above all, the most...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 4:2: I thought it good--"It was seemly before me" (Psa 107:2-8). signs--tokens significant of God's omnipotent agency. The plural is used, as it comprises the marvellous dream, the marvellous interpretation of it, and its marvellous issue.
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Daniel 4:2: I thought it good to show - A part of the decree was a recital of the wonders wrought by the hand of the true God in his kingdom and on his person.