Daniel 4:12

Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and on it was food for all. The wild animals found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches. All living creatures were fed from it.

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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 grew and became strong. Its top reached to the heavens, and it could be seen to the ends of the whole earth.

13I saw in my mind as I lay on my bed, and a holy messenger came down from the heavens.

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Cross References

Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth; 1 he causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path. 1

Job 14:9yet even if it only smells water, it will bud 1 and send out branches like a plant. 1

Lamentations 4:20The breath in our nostrils—Yahweh's anointed one—he was the one who was captured in their pits; 1 of whom it was said, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.” 1

Ezekiel 31:6Every bird of the heavens nested in its branches, while every living thing of the field gave birth to its young under its foliage. 1 All of the many nations lived under its shade. 1

Mark 13:32But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

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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