Daniel 4:12
Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.
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In Context
13In the visions of my head on my bed I saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven,
Cross References
Job 12:24He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
Job 14:9Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.
Lamentations 4:20Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.
Ezekiel 31:6In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.
Mark 13:32But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or 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 →