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Daniel 2: 20-49
(1599 Geneva Bible)
24 Daniel is brought unto the king,
and showeth him his dream, and the interpretation thereof.
44 Of the everlasting kingdom of Christ.
20 And Daniel answered and said, The Name of God be praised forever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his.
21 And he changeth the times and seasons: he taketh away kings: he setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and understanding to those that understand.
22 He discovereth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in darkness, and the [l]light dwelleth with him.
[l] He showeth that man hath neither wisdom nor knowledge,
but very dark blindness and ignorance of himself:
for it cometh only of God, that man understandeth anything.
23 I thank thee and praise thee, O thou God of my [m]fathers, that thou hast given me wisdom and [n]strength, and hast showed me now the thing that we desired of thee: for thou hast declared unto us the king’s matter.
[m] To whom thou madest thy promise,
and who lived in thy fear:
whereby he excludeth all other gods.
[n]Meaning, power to interpret it.
24 Therefore Daniel went unto Arioch, whom the King had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babel: he went and said thus unto him, Destroy not [o]the wise men of Babel, but bring me before the king, and I will declare unto the king the interpretation.
[o] Whereby appeareth that many were slain, as verse 13,
and the rest at Daniel’s offer were preserved on condition:
not that Daniel favored their wicked profession,
but that he had respect to equity,
because the King proceeded according to his wicked affection,
and not considering if their science were lawful or no.
25 Then Arioch brought Daniel before the king in all haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the children of Judah that were brought captives, that will declare unto the king the interpretation.
26 Then answered the king, and said unto Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to show me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded, can neither the wise, the astrologians, the enchanters, nor the soothsayers declare unto the king.
28 But there is a God in [p]heaven that revealeth secrets, and showeth the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the things which thou hast seen in thine head upon thy bed, is this:
[p] He affirmeth that man by reason and art
is not able to attain to the cause of God’s secrets,
but the understanding only thereof must come of God:
whereby he smiteth the king with a certain fear and reverence of God,
that he might be the more apt to receive the high mysteries,
that should be revealed.
29 O king, when thou wast in thy bed, thoughts came into thy mind, what should come to pass hereafter, and he that revealeth secrets, telleth thee what shall come.
30 As [q]for me, this secret is not showed me for any wisdom that I have more than any other living, but only to show the king the interpretation, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thine heart.
[q] Because he had said that God only must reveal
the signification of this dream, the King might have asked,
why Daniel did enterprise to interpret it,
and therefore he showeth that he was but God’s minister
and had no gifts, but such as God had given him to set forth his glory.
31 O king, thou sawest, and behold, there was a great image: this great image whose glory was so excellent, stood before thee, and the form therefore was terrible.
32 This image’s head was of fine [r]gold, his breast, and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
[r] By gold, silver, brass and iron, are meant the Chaldean,
Persian, Macedonian and Roman kingdoms,
which should successively rule all the world till Christ
(which is here called the stone)
come himself, and destroy the last:
and this was to assure the Jews,
that their affliction should not end with the empire of the Chaldeans,
but that they should patiently abide the coming of Messiah,
which should be at the end of this fourth monarchy.
33 His legs of iron, and his feet were part of iron, and part of clay.
34 Thou beheldest it till a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken all together, and became like the chaff of the summer flowers, and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image, became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
36 This is the dream, and we will declare before the king the interpretation thereof.
37 O king, thou art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And in all places where the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all: thou art [s]this head of gold.
[s] Daniel leaveth out the kingdom of the Assyrians,
which was before the Babylonian,
both because it was not a Monarchy and general empire,
and also because he would declare the things that were to come,
to the coming of Christ, for the comfort of the elect
among these wonderful alterations,
and he calleth the Babylonian kingdom the golden head,
because in respect of the other three, it was the best,
and yet it was of itself wicked and cruel.
39 And after thee shall rise another kingdom, [t]inferior to thee, of silver, and another [u]third kingdom shall be of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
[t] Meaning, the Persians which were not inferior in dignity,
power, and riches, but were worse touching ambition,
cruelty, and all kind of vice, showing that the world
should grow worse and worse, till it was restored by Christ.
[u] That is, of the Macedonians shall be of brass,
not alluding to the hardness thereof,
but to the vileness in respect of silver.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: for as iron breaketh in pieces, and subdueth all things, and as iron bruiseth all these things, so shall it break in [v]pieces, and bruise all.
[v] That is, the Roman empire shall subdue all these other aforenamed,
which after Alexander were divided into the Macedonians,
Grecians, Syrians and Egyptians.
41 Whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter’s clay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be [w]divided, but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, as thou sawest the iron mixed with the clay, and earth.
[w] They shall have civil wars,
and continual discords among themselves.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so shall the kingdom be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with clay and earth, they shall mingle themselves with [x]the seed of men: but they shall not join one with another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay.
[x] They shall by marriages and affinities think
to make themselves strong:
yet shall they never be joined in hearts.
44 And in the days of these kings, shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which [y]shall never be destroyed: and this kingdom shall not be given to another people, but it shall break, and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
[y] His purpose is to show, that all the kingdoms
of the world are transitory, and that the kingdom
of Christ shall only remain forever.
45 Whereas thou sawest, that the [z]stone was cut of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold: so the great God hath showed the king, what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof is sure.
[z] Meaning Christ, who was sent of God,
and not set up by man, whose kingdom
at the beginning should be small and without beauty
to man’s judgment, but should at length grow
and fill the whole earth, which he calleth a great mountain,
as verse 35. And this kingdom
which is not only referred to the person of Christ,
but also to the whole body of his Church,
and to every member thereof, shall be eternal:
for the Spirit that is in them is life eternal, Rom. 8:10.
46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and [aa]bowed himself unto Daniel, and commanded that they should offer meat offerings, and sweet odors unto him.
[aa] Though this humbling of the king
seemed to deserve commendation,
yet because he joined God’s honor with the Prophet’s,
it is to be reproved, and Daniel herein erred,
if he suffered it: but it is credible that
Daniel admonished him of his fault, and did not suffer it.
47 Also the King answered unto Daniel, and said, I know of a truth that your [ab]God is a God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and the revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest open this secret.
[ab] This confession was but a sudden motion,
as it was also in Pharaoh, Exod. 9:28,
but his heart was not touched, as appeared soon afterward.
48 So the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many and great [ac]gifts. He made him governor over the whole province of Babel, and chief of the rulers, and above all the wise men of Babel.
[ac] Not that the Prophet was desirous of gifts or honor,
but because by this means he might relieve his poor brethren,
which were grievously oppressed in this their captivity,
and also he received them, lest he should offend this cruel king,
which willingly gave them.
49 Then Daniel [ad]made request to the King, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the charge of the province of Babel: but Daniel sat in the [ae]gate of the king.
[ad] He did not this for their private profit:
but that the whole Church, which was then there in affliction,
might have some release and ease by this benefit.
[ae] Meaning, that either he was a judge,
or that he had the whole authority,
so than none could be admitted to the king’s presence, but by him.
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