Daniel 2:9

If then you⌃ do not tell me the dream, I know that you⌃ have concerted to utter before me a false and corrupt tale, until the time shall have past: tell me my dream, and I shall know that you⌃ will also declare to me the interpretation thereof.

LXX2012 (British)

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

8And the king answered and said, I verily know that you⌃ are trying to gain time, because you⌃ see that the thing has gone from me.

10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is no man upon the earth, who shall be able to make known the king's matter: forasmuch as no great king or ruler asks such a question of an enchanter, magician, or Chaldean.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:22And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall deceive him, yes, and shall prevail: go forth, and do so.

Proverbs 12:19True lips establish testimony; but a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.

Isaiah 44:25Who else will frustrate the tokens of + 44:25 Gr. ventriloquists those that have divining spirits, and prophecies + 44:25 See Heb. from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

Ezekiel 13:17And you, son of man, set your face firmly against the daughters of your people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them.

Daniel 2:16And Daniel entreated the king to give him time, and that he might thus declare to the king the interpretation of it.

Daniel 3:15Now then if you⌃ be ready, whenever you⌃ shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and lute, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; well: but if you⌃ worship not, in the same hour you⌃ shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

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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