Daniel 2:37
You are a king who rules over many other kings. The God who rules in heaven has caused you to rule over them and has given you great power [DOU] and has honored you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
36That was what you dreamed. Now I will tell you what it means.
Cross References
2 Kings 25:28He always spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and honored him more than the other kings who had been taken/exiled to Babylon.
Ezra 1:2“I, King Cyrus, who rule the Persian Empire, declare this: 'Yahweh, the God who is in/rules from heaven, has caused me to become the ruler of all the kingdoms that I know about on the earth. And he has appointed me to enable his people to build a temple for him in Jerusalem, in Judah land.
Psalms 62:11I have heard God say more than once that he is the one who really has power,
Isaiah 10:8He says, ‘All of my army commanders will soon be kings of these nations that I conquer!
Jeremiah 27:6And now I am going to enable King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who does what I want him to do, to control your countries. I am going to enable him to rule everything, even the wild animals.
Ezekiel 26:7This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say is going to happen: ‘From the north, I am going to bring the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, with his army to attack Tyre. They will bring horses and chariots, and men who ride the horses and men who drive the chariots; it will be a huge army.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 2:32-46
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Interpreted. ( b. c. 603.) 31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to… Read the whole commentary →