Daniel 4:12

Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle, and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

In Context

11The tree was great, and strong: and the height thereof reached unto heaven: the sight thereof was even to the ends of all the earth.

13I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came down from heaven.

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Cross References

Job 12:24He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.

Job 14:9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.

Lamentations 4:20Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken in our sins: to whom we said: Under thy shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

Ezekiel 31:6And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.

Mark 13:32But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:5-19

Nebuchadnezzar's Second Dream; Nebuchadnezzar Relates His Dream. ( b. c. 570.) 4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before… Read the whole commentary →

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