Daniel 2:7

They have answered a second time, and are saying, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we show the interpretation.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.

In Context

6and if the dream and its interpretation you show, gifts, and fee, and great glory you receive from before me, therefore the dream and its interpretation you show me.”

8The king has answered and said, “Of a truth I know that you are gaining time, because that you have seen that the thing is gone from me,

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:4If the spirit of the ruler goes up against you, do not leave your place, || For yielding quiets great sinners.

Daniel 2:9[so] that, if you do not cause me to know the dream—one is your sentence, seeing a lying and corrupt word you have prepared to speak before me, until the time is changed, therefore tell the dream to me, then I know that you show me its interpretation.”

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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