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Daniel 2:9

Daniel 2:9
But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream,.... For the present he does not insist upon the interpretation, only the dream itself, at least this is now only mentioned; concluding that if they…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you - That is, you shall share the same fate. You shall all be cut to pieces, and your houses reduced to ruin, Dan 2:5.…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Daniel 2:1-13

We meet with a great difficulty in the date of this story; it is said to be in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan 2:1. Now Daniel was carried to Babylon in his first year, and, it…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

That, if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but one law for you you can expect nothing else but punishment. Lit. your law(i.e. the law or sentence against you) is one, implying that it is…