Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 2:26-29
Daniel 2:26-29. The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar See note on Daniel 1:7; Art thou able to make known to me the dream? &c. The king seems to have questioned whether he could make his promise good. The less likely, however, it appeared to the king that Daniel should do this, the more God was glorified in enabling him to do it. Daniel answered, Cannot the wise men, &c. Daniel’s words, as here translated, bear the interrogative form; but not in the original. They... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Daniel 2:24-25
Daniel 2:24-25 . Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch Daniel, having been thus divinely instructed, was desirous to save the lives of the wise men of Babylon, who were unjustly condemned, as well as his own; and, being now prepared, he goes immediately to Arioch, and bespeaks the reversing of the sentence against them. Though there might be some among them, perhaps, who deserved to die, as magicians, by the law of God; yet that which they here stood condemned for was not a crime worthy of... read more