Daniel 2:5
And the king answering said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Joshua 6:26Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.
2 Kings 10:27And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.
Psalms 50:22Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Daniel 2:12Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 2:2-14
Nebuchadnezzar's Forgotten Dream. ( b. c. 603.) 1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the… Read the whole commentary →