Daniel 4:11

The tree was very strong and had grown very tall; it seemed that its top reached up to the sky, with the result that everyone in the world [HYP] could see it.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

In Context

10This is what I dreamed while I was lying on my bed: I saw a large tree growing in the middle of the land.

12It had beautiful leaves, and it had produced a lot of fruit for people to eat. Wild animals rested in the shade of that tree, and birds built nests in its branches. All the living creatures everywhere in the world got food from that tree.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:4They said, “Hey, let’s build a city for ourselves! We also ought to build a very high tower that reaches up to the sky! In that way we will become famous! If we do not do this, we will be scattered all over the earth!”

Ezekiel 31:5That huge tree grew very tall, higher than all the other trees around it. Its branches grew very thick and long [DOU] because of the abundant water at the base of the tree.

Daniel 4:21It had beautiful leaves and it had produced a lot of fruit for people to eat. Wild animals rested in the shade of that tree, and birds built nests in its branches.

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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