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Daniel 4:10

Daniel 4:10
Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw , and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed,.... So things appeared to my fancy thus; they ran in my head or brain in a dream in my bed, as if I saw them with my eyes, as follows; for so I thought,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Thus were the visions of my head in my bed - These are the things which I saw upon my bed. When he says that they were the “visions of his head,” he states a doctrine which was then doubtless regarded…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I saw - a tree - This vision Nebuchadnezzar says made him afraid. What a mercy it is that God has hidden futurity from us! Were he to show every man the lot that is before him, the misery of the human…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Daniel 4:10-17

Nebuchadnezzar's dream was of a mighty tree, the head of which towered to heaven, while its branches sheltered, and afforded nutriment for, the beasts and fowl of the earth: as he watched it, he heard…

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