Daniel 2:8

The king answered and said: 'I know of a truth that ye would gain time, inasmuch as ye see the thing is certain with me,

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

In Context

7They answered the second time and said: 'Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation.'

9that, if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but one law for you; and ye have agreed together to speak before me lying and corrupt words, till the time be changed; only tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can declare unto me the interpretation thereof.'

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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 →

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