Daniel 4:12

It 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.

Translation for Translators

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

11The 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.

13While I was still lying on my bed, I saw another vision. In the vision I saw a holy angel coming down from heaven.

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Cross References

Job 12:24He causes some rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.

Job 14:9but if some water falls on it, it may bud/sprout and send up shoots like a young plant.

Lamentations 4:20Our king, whom Yahweh appointed, was the one who enabled us to remain alive [MTY]; he was the one whom we trusted to protect us [IDM] from the armies of other nations. But he was captured like animals are [MET] caught in a pit.

Ezekiel 31:6Birds built their nests in the branches, and wild animals gave birth to their babies under those branches. And it was as though people of all the great nations lived in the shade of that tree.

Mark 13:32But no one knows the exact time when I will return. The angels in heaven also do not know. Even I do not know. Only my Father knows.

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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