Daniel 4:30-34 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 does not appear that he broke off his sins, or showed any mercy to the poor captives, for this was still God's quarrel with... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 4:34-37

We have here Nebuchadnezzar's recovery from his distraction, and his return to his right mind, at the end of the days prefixed, that is, of the seven years. So long he continued a monument of God's justice and a trophy of his victory over the children of pride, and he was made more so by being struck mad than if he had been in an instant struck dead with a thunderbolt; yet it was a mercy to him that he was kept alive, for while there is life there is hope that we may yet praise God, as he did... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:30

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 F3 Politic. l. 3. c. 3. , it was more like a country than a city; it was, as Pliny F4 Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 26. says, sixty miles in compass within the walls; and Herodotus F5 Clio, sive l. 1. c. 178. ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:31

While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven ,.... Before the king had done speaking in the above boasting manner, an articulate voice from heaven was heard by him, and all about him, formed by the angels, and much like what the Jews call Bath Kol; see Acts 12:21 , so Abydenus F7 Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 41. p. 457.) , in the account he gives of Nebuchadnezzar's oration to the people, relates, that when the king had spoke it, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:32

And they shall drive thee from men ,.... According to the interpretation of the dream given by Daniel, which this voice from heaven confirms; See Gill on Daniel 4:25 , where the same things are said as here. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:33

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar ,.... Whence it appears that this was a true history, and a matter of fact; and not a parable or allegory, as Origen thought, describing the fall of Lucifer or Satan; but relates what befell Nebuchadnezzar himself: nor was the change real as to soul and body; for then he would not have been the same person, not Nebuchadnezzar, and so not he himself punished, but the beast into which he was changed: and though there was a strange... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:34

And at the end of the days ,.... Of the time fixed in the dream; that is, at the end of seven years, as Jarchi rightly interprets it; this according to Bishop Usher F14 Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3442. , Dean Prideaux F15 Connexium, &c.; part. 1. p. 106. , and Mr. Whiston F16 Chronological Tables, cent. 10. , was in the year of the world 3442 A.M., and before Christ 563, in the forty second year of his reign; after which he lived but one year, reigning from the death of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 4:30

Is not this great Babylon - Here his heart was inflated with pride; he attributed every thing to himself, and acknowledged God in nothing. The walls, hanging gardens, temple of Bel, and the royal palace, all built by Nebuchadnezzar, made it the greatest city in the world. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 4:31

While the word was in the king's mouth - How awful to a victorious and proud king: "Thy kingdom is departed from thee!" All thy goods and gods are gone in a moment! read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 4:32

They shall make thee, etc. - Thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen. The madness that fell upon him induced him to forsake society, and to run to the woods and deserts, where he lived like a wild beast, his hairs growing long and thick, so as to be a substitute for clothing; and his nails strong and hooked, that he might the better climb trees and grub up the ground, in order to get roots and earth-nuts. It was the mercy of God that thus clothed and accoutred him. His case seems much like... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 4:28-33

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Daniel 4:34-37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 4:34

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 4:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 4:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Daniel 4:32

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