Daniel 4:12

Its leaves were beautiful, and it was full of fruit for all to eat. Wild animals rested in its shade, and birds nested in its branches. It fed all living creatures.

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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

11It grew strong and tall, reaching high into the sky so it could be seen by everyone in the whole world.

13As I went on dreaming, lying on my bed, I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.

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Cross References

Job 12:24He removes the understanding of rulers and makes them wander in the wilderness.

Job 14:9just a trickle of water will make it bud and grow branches like a young plant.

Lamentations 4:20The king, the Lord's anointed, our country's “life-breath,” was trapped and captured by them. We had said about him, “Under his protection we will live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 31:6All kinds of birds nested in its branches, while underneath it different wild animals had their young, and all the powerful nations lived in its shade.

Mark 13:32No one knows the day or hour when this will happen—not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son; only the Father knows.

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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