Daniel 4:27
So, Your Majesty, please take my advice. Stop sinning and do what's right. End your iniquities and be merciful to the oppressed. Maybe then things will continue to go well for you.”
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28(However, all this did happen to King Nebuchadnezzar.
Cross References
Genesis 41:33So Your Majesty should choose a man with insight and wisdom, and put him in charge of the whole country of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:27but I didn't want to hear their conquerors jeering, their enemies misunderstanding what had happened and saying, ‘We won all by ourselves, the Lord didn't have anything to do with it.’
Job 34:31If you were to say to God, ‘I have sinned, but I won't do bad things any more.
Psalms 119:46I will instruct kings about your laws—I won't be embarrassed.
Proverbs 16:6Sin is forgiven through trustworthy love and faithfulness; by honoring the Lord people are saved from evil.
Isaiah 10:13For the king of Assyria says: “I have done this in my own strength. It was through my wisdom, because I'm clever. I have wiped out the boundaries of nations and looted their treasures. Like a bull I knocked their rulers off their thrones.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:20-28
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Interpreted. ( b. c. 570.) 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. 20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;… Read the whole commentary →