Daniel 4:12

(4:9) Its foliage was splendid, and its fruit large, and on it was food for all: under it sought the beasts of the field for shade, and in its boughs dwelt the fowls of heaven, and from it was fed all flesh.

Leeser Tanakh

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

11(4:8) The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached unto heaven, and it was visible to the end of all the earth.

13(4:10) I saw in the visions of my head on my couch, and, behold, a watcher who was also a holy one came down from heaven.

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Cross References

Job 12:24He taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander astray in a wilderness when there is no way.

Job 14:9Yet through the scent of water will it flourish [again], and produce boughs as though It were newly planted.

Lamentations 4:20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was caught in their pits, he, of whom we said, Under his shadow shall we live among the nations.

Ezekiel 31:6In its boughs made all the fowls of heaven their nest, and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under its shade dwelt all great nations.

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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