Daniel 4:28 (BSB)

All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 4:28

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 4:28: After Nebuchadnezzar has related Daniel to be a herald of God’s approaching judgment, he now shews how God executed the judgment which the Prophet had announced. But he speaks in the third person, according to what we know to be a common practice with both the Hebrews and Chaldees. Thus Daniel does not relate the exact words of the king, but only their substance.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 4:28-33: We have here Nebuchadnezzar's dream accomplished, and Daniel's application of it to him justified and confirmed. How he took it we are not told, whether he was pleased with Daniel or displeased; but here we have, I. God's patience with him: All this came upon him, but not till twelve months after (Dan 4:29), so long there was a lengthening of his tranquility, though it...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 4:28: The king spake and said,.... Either within himself, or to his nobles about him; or perhaps to foreigners he had took up with him hither to show the grandeur of the city: is not this great Babylon, that I have built; he might well call it great, for, according to Aristotle (c), it was more like a country than a city; it was, as Pliny...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Daniel 4:28-33: Dan 4:28-33 (Hebrew_Bible_4:25-30)The fulfilling of the dream. Nebuchadnezzar narrates the fulfilment of the dream altogether objectively, so that he speaks of himself in the third person. Berth., Hitz., and others find here that the author falls out of the role of the king into the narrative tone, and thus betrays the fact that some other than the king framed the edict.