I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
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I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
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I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
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(4-2) I saw a dream which made me afraid; and imaginings upon my bed and the visions of my head affrighted me.
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Passages linked to Daniel 4:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Daniel 2:1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
- Genesis 41:1 At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
- Job 7:13-14 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’ then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
- Daniel 2:28-29 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: “As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.
- Daniel 5:5-6 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
- Daniel 5:10 The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
- Daniel 7:28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain This no doubt was a great grief to Daniel…
This no doubt was a great grief to Daniel not only to have his name changed, but to be called by the name of a vile idol, which thing Nebuchadnezzar did to make him forget the true religion of God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Dan 4:5 I saw a dream which made me…
Dan 4:5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Ver. 5. I saw a dream, which made me afraid.] It is seldom seen that God alloweth unto the greatest darlings of the world a perfect contentment; something they must complain of that shall give an unsavoury verdure to their sweetest morsels, and make their very felicity miserable.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain There is no felicity in this world lasting; a…
There is no felicity in this world lasting; a black cloud, big with storm and tempest, spoils the fairest sun-shine day. They that fear not God shall be frighted by him. God doth justly make epicures and tyrants uneasy in the midst of their fool’s paradise, where if the fool saith in his heart, There is no God, he shall soon find in his heart to think otherwise.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I saw a dream which made me afraid,.... Things…
I saw a dream which made me afraid,.... Things were represented to his fancy in a dream, as if he saw them with his eyes, as the tree, its leaves and fruit; the shaking and cutting it down to the stump, &c.; and though he did not understand the meaning of it, yet he thought it portended some evil, which threw him into a panic; he was afraid that something bad would befall him, though he knew not what: thus God can make the minds of the greatest men uneasy amidst all their glory, pride, and pleasure:
and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me; the thoughts that came into his mind while he was upon his bed dreaming, and the things which were represented to his fancy in his brain, he remembered when awake, gave him a great deal of trouble and uneasiness, what should be the meaning of them, and what would be the issue and event of these things.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. I saw a dream] See this dream…
Verse 5. I saw a dream] See this dream circumstantially explained in the following verses.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I saw a dream - That is, he saw…
I saw a dream - That is, he saw a representation made to him in a dream. There is something incongruous in our language in saying of one that he saw a dream.
Which made me afraid - The fear evidently arose from the apprehension that it was designed to disclose some important and solemn event. This was in accordance with a prevalent belief then (comp. Dan 2:1), and it may be added that it is in accordance with a prevalent belief now. There are few persons, whatever may be their abstract belief, who are not more or less disturbed by fearful and solemn representations passing before the mind in the visions of the night. Compare Job 4:12-17; Job 33:14-15. So Virgil (Aen. iv. 9):
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“Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent!”
And the thoughts upon my bed - The thoughts which I had upon my bed; to wit, in my dream.
And the visions of my head - What I seemed to see. The vision seemed to be floating around his head.
Troubled me - Disturbed me; produced apprehension of what was to come; of some great and important event.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Colleague. Chaldee also, "another, or afterwards, (Haydock) or at…
Colleague. Chaldee also, "another, or afterwards, (Haydock) or at last." (Calmet) --- My god. He says this, because the name of Baltassar, or Belteshazzar, is derived from the name of Bel, the chief god of the Babylonians. (Challoner) --- Gods. He speaks conformably to his false opinion; (St. Jerome) or, being instructed by Daniel, he testifies that the Holy Spirit enlightens the prophet. (Theod. Greek has "god," which St. Jerome disapproves; though the plural is often used for the true God. Reason evinces that only the Deity can disclose the secrets of futurity. (Genesis xli. 38.) (Calmet)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5-7. See notes Dan_2:1-2. In the coronation decree of…
5-7. See notes Dan_2:1-2. In the coronation decree of Nabonidus recently found in the ruins of Babylon (see Babylonian and Oriental Record, September, 1896) this king, the father of Belshazzar, tells how Nebuchadnezzar appeared to him in a night vision accompanied by the Babylonian high priest carrying a drawn sword. Nabonidus tells Nebuchadnezzar a dream which had troubled him greatly, and Nebuchadnezzar interprets it for him, the high priest being, as it seems, the “medium” through which this conversation between the living and the dead king was carried on. In another night vision mentioned in the same decree the goddess “who can raise to life the dead” appears to him.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. the thoughts] imaginations (without the art.); cf. R.V.…
5. the thoughts] imaginations (without the art.); cf. R.V. marg. The word is a peculiar one, and is found only here in the O.T. The idea expressed by it is probably that of fancyings, imaginings (in Syr. it means a mirage); in the Targums it is used especially (like the cognate verb) of sinful imaginations, as Isa_57:17 (for the Heb. ‘way’), Eze_38:10.
visions of my head] Dan_2:28.
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troubled me] alarmed me: cf. Dan_4:19, Dan_5:6; Dan_5:10, Dan_7:15; Dan_7:28; also Dan_5:9. The corresponding Hebrew word means to perturb or dismay.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 4:5 Nebuchadnezzar’s dream disrupted the false peace and serenity…
4:5 Nebuchadnezzar’s dream disrupted the false peace and serenity of the king’s misguided life.
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