Daniel 4:7 (BSB)
When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.
From Daniel 4. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Daniel 4:7
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Daniel 4:7: With respect to the words used above, we have formerly freed ourselves from all trouble, because we cannot accurately define what science each professed. Clearly enough they covered their shamelessness by honorable titles, although they gave themselves up to every possible imposture.
- 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 4:7: Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers,.... See Gill on Dan 2:2, and I told the dream before them, but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof; because they could not; before they pretended, if the dream was told, they could give the interpretation of it; but now, though it was told, they could not do it...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Daniel 4:7: Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. (c) In that he sent abroad to others, whose ignorance in times past he had experienced, and left Daniel who was ever ready at hand, it declares the nature of the ungodly, who never seek...