Daniel 2:9

If you do not tell me what I dreamed, you will be punished. I think that you have all agreed to tell me lies and other wicked things, because you hope that I will change ◄ my mind/what I am thinking►. But tell me the dream, and then I will know that you can also tell me what it means.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

In Context

8The king replied, “I know that you are just trying to get more time, because you know that I will do to you what I said that I would do.

10The men who studied the stars replied, “There is no one on the earth who can do what you ask! There is no king, even a great and mighty king, who has ever asked his men who work magic or his fortune-tellers or men who study the stars to do something like that!

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:22Yahweh asked him, ‘How will you do it?’ The spirit replied, ‘I will go and inspire all of Ahab’s prophets to tell lies.’ Yahweh said, ‘You will be successful; go and do it!’

Proverbs 12:19When people tell [MTY] lies, others soon realize that what they said is not true [IDM]; but when people say what is true, others will remember that forever.

Isaiah 44:25I show that the false prophets are liars, and I show that those who perform rituals to predict the future are fools. Some people who falsely think that they are [IRO] wise say that they know a lot, but I show that they are foolish.

Ezekiel 13:17So, you human, show that you are angry with [IDM] the women of Jerusalem who prophesy things that they themselves have imagined.

Daniel 2:16I immediately went to talk to the king and requested that the king give me some time, so that I could find out what the dream was and what the dream meant.

Daniel 3:15If that is true, I will give you one more chance. If you bow down to worship the statue that I have set up when you hear the sounds of the musical instruments, fine. But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. Then ◄what god will be able to rescue you from my power?/no god will be able to rescue you from my power!►” [RHQ]

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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