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Daniel 2:1

In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign the king had dreams that upset him so much that he found it difficult to sleep.

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In The King James Version

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

In Context

2So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed. They came in and stood before him.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:1A full two years later, Pharaoh had a dream that he was standing beside the River Nile.

2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

Job 33:15Through dreams and visions in the night, when people fall into deep sleep, resting on their beds,

Daniel 1:1During the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem and surrounded it.

Daniel 4:2It is my pleasure to share with you an account of the signs and wonders the Most High God has done for me.

Daniel 6:18Then the king went back to his palace. He ate nothing at all that night and refused any kind of entertainment. He couldn't sleep a wink.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 2:1

It was said ( ch. i. 17 ) that Daniel had understanding in dreams; and here we have an early and eminent instance of it, which soon made him famous in the court of Babylon, as Joseph by the same means came to be so in the court of Egypt. This chapter is a history, but it is the history of a prophecy, by a dream and the interpretation of it. Pharaoh's dream, and Joseph's interpretation of it, related only to the years of plenty and famine and the interest of God's Israel in them; but Nebuchadnezzar's dream here,… Read the whole commentary →

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