Daniel 4:30
As he looked out over/across the city, he said to those around him, “I have built this great city of Babylon to be the place where I rule! I have built it to display my own power, in order to show people my glory, to show them that I am very great!”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
29Twelve months later, one day he was walking on the flat roof of his palace in Babylon.
Cross References
Genesis 11:2As people moved further east, they arrived at a plain in Babylonia region and began to live there.
2 Chronicles 2:5We want this temple to be a great temple, because our God is greater than all other gods.
Psalms 49:20Even if someone is great, that cannot prevent him from dying; he will die, the same as animals do.
Psalms 104:1I tell myself that I should praise Yahweh. Yahweh, my God, you are very great! Like a king has on his royal robes [MET], you have honor and majesty/greatness all around you!
Proverbs 11:2People who are proud will eventually be disgraced; it is wise to be humble.
Isaiah 10:8He says, ‘All of my army commanders will soon be kings of these nations that I conquer!
Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:29-34
Nebuchadnezzar Driven among Beasts. ( b. c. 569.) 28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. 32 And they… Read the whole commentary →