Daniel 4:24 (BSB)
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king:
From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 4:24
- 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 4:24: And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots,.... That is the watchers and the Holy Ones; or it was commanded: this was the order given by the most High: thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee; signifying that another king should not be set up in his place; and though the kingdom and administration of it would depart from, him for...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Daniel 4:24: decree of the Most High--What was termed in Dan 4:17 by Nebuchadnezzar, "the decree of the watchers," is here more accurately termed by Daniel, "the decree of the Most High." They are but His ministers.
- 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.