Daniel 4:22 (BSB)

you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.

From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 4:22

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 4:19-27: We have here the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream; and when once it is applied to himself, and it is declared that he is the tree in the dream (Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur - Change but the name, the fable speaks of thee), when once it is said, Thou art the man, there needs little more to be said for the explication of the dream.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 4:22: And whereas the king saw a watcher, and an Holy One,.... Here is related another part of the dream, which respects the cutting down of the tree, or the miserable condition the king should be brought into; see Dan 4:13. . Daniel 4:24 dan 4:24 dan 4:24 dan 4:24This is the interpretation, O king,....
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 4:22: It is thou--He speaks pointedly, and without circumlocution (Sa2 12:7). While pitying the king, he uncompromisingly pronounces his sentence of punishment. Let ministers steer the mean between, on the one hand, fulminations against sinners under the pretext of zeal, without any symptom of compassion; and, on the other, flattery of sinners under the pretext of moderation. to the end of the earth-- (Jer 27:6-8).
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Daniel 4:19-27: Dan 4:19-27 (Hebrew_Bible_4:16-24)The interpretation of the dream. As Daniel at once understood the interpretation of the dream, he was for a moment so astonished that he could not speak for terror at the thoughts which moved his soul. This amazement seized him because he wished well to the king, and yet he must now announce to him a weighty judgment from God.