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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Daniel 4:10

A watcher. A vigilant angel, perhaps the guardian of Israel. (Challoner) --- Chaldee: hir; (Haydock) whence Iris the messenger of the gods, is derived. (St. Jerome) --- Theodot. retains eir. See St. Jerome in Psalm lxxvi. 4. The Scholiast (Rom. ed.) says: "the Septuagint renders it an angel, the rest a watcher. " These supernatural agents (Haydock) and saints are represented as judges, ver. 14. (Calmet)

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See also Daniel 4:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Daniel 4:10. _I SAW - A TREE_] This vision Nebuchadnezzar says _made him_ _afraid_. What a mercy it is that God has hidden futurity from us! Were he to show every man the lot that is before him,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THUS WERE THE VISIONS OF MY HEAD IN MY BED - These are the things which I saw upon my bed. When he says that they were the “visions of his head,” he states a doctrine which was then doubtless regarded...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 THE TREE VISION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR _ 1. The king's proclamation (Daniel 4:1)_ 2. The king relates the tree vision (Daniel 4:4) 3. Daniel interprets the vision (Daniel 4:19) 4. The tree vi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DANIEL 4. This chapter takes us again into the realm of Apocalyptic. Nebuchadnezzar dreams a fresh dream. This time he sees a gigantic tree, the top of which reached to heaven, full of leaves and frui...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I SAW. I was gazing. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Nebuchadnezzar describes his dream, which, as the wise men of Babylon were unable to interpret it, he laid before Daniel....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Nebuchadnezzar's dream was of a mighty tree, the head of which towered to heaven, while its branches sheltered, and afforded nutriment for, the beasts and fowl of the earth: as he watched it, he heard...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, A TREE, &C.— Princes and great men are frequently represented in Scripture under the metaphor of fair and flourishing trees. See Ezekiel 31:3.Jeremiah 22:15.Psalms 37:35. The whole of this all...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. RULER'S REVERIE RELATED, PART I TEXT: Daniel 4:7-12 7 Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make know...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. I SAW ... A TREE - so the Assyrian is compared to a "cedar in Leb...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:10 tree (b-16) Or 'a terebinth.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM AND ITS FULFILMENT In the form of a proclamation Nebuchadnezzar records his experience of the power of the Most high God (Daniel 4:1). He had a dream which none of his wise men...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 4 V1 I, King Nebuchadnezzar, send this message to everyone in the world. I am writing to the people in every country who speak every la...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A TREE. — For this symbol of majesty, comp. Ezekiel 31:3, &c. The dream of Cambyses (Herod. i. 108) was of a similar nature....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Daniel 4:7]_ וְ חֶזְוֵ֥י רֵאשִׁ֖י עַֽל ־מִשְׁכְּבִ֑י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE BABYLONIAN CEDAR, AND THE STRICKEN DESPOT THRICE already, in these magnificent stories, had Nebuchadrezzar been taught to recognise the existence and to reverence the power of God. In this chapte...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE DECREE OF THE WATCHERS” Daniel 4:1-18 Nebuchadnezzar was in the zenith of his fame and power. His wars were over; his prosperity was assured. But he attributed all to his own wisdom and prowess....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The last story connected with the reign of Nebuchadnezzar consisted of the king's own manifesto, setting forth the dealings of the Most High God with him. The opening ascription of praise is most rema...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus [were] the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a (f) tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof [was] great. (f) By the tree is signified the dignity of a king whom God...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe several striking particulars in this man's account. First, he tells us, that he was at rest in his house, and flourishing. Yes! the word of God teacheth the people of God to be on the lookout...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here Nebuchadnezzar relates his dream, of which the interpretation will follow in its place. Yet because this narrative is cold and useless unless we should say something of the subject itself, it is...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 4 we see the manifestation of human pride; the king glories in the work of his hands, as though he had created his own greatness. This pride brings judgment. Power is reduced to the conditi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS WERE THE VISIONS OF MINE HEAD IN MY BED,.... So things appeared to my fancy thus; they ran in my head or brain in a dream in my bed, as if I saw them with my eyes, as follows; for so I thought,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus [were] the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof [was] great. Ver. 10. _Thus were the visions of my head in my bed._] He read...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I saw_, &c. The substance of what the king relates is, that he saw in a dream “a tree, strong and flourishing; [_ in the midst of the earth_, or of his empire;] its summit pierced the clouds, and its...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE KING TELLS DANIEL HIS DREAM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed, literally, "And regarding the visions of my head upon my bed," I SAW, AND BEHOLD A TREE IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH, therefore evidently possessing great im...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    I SAW: Cald. I was seeing...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-18 The beginning and end of this chapter lead us to hope, that Nebuchadnezzar was a monument of the power of Divine grace, and of the riches of Divine mercy. After he was recovered from his madness...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE VISIONS OF MINE HEAD; because the fancy and imagination is in the head; and he calls them VISIONS or SEEINGS, because eyes and sight are attributed to the understanding, and the thing seemed visib...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 4:10 visions H2376 head H7217 on H5922 bed H4903 looking H1934 (H8754) H2370 (H8751) behold...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TREE Symbol of a great king. (Daniel 4:22); (Ezekiel 31:1)....

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Daniel 4 I. In this chapter we have a solemn and instructive warning against pride and vain-glory. II. A sad illustration of the proverb that pride goeth before a fall. III. A beautiful illustratio...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation. The true vision and its interpretation. Vision fulfilled; the restoration of Nebuchadnezzar. CHARACTERS: God, Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Astrologers. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The three first verses of this chapter in Theodotian and the Vulgate, are appended to the third chapter; but seem to stand better as in the English, being the introduction to the dream. Daniel 4:5. _...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I saw and behold a tree in the midst of the earth._ THE FALL OF THE GREAT TREE I. UNDUE EXALTATION OF SPIRIT MAY BRING DEGRADATION OF THE FLESH. Rich men often look over a vast domain which they cal...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people._ THE PROCLAMATION OF PEACE TO ALL NATIONS How changed the spirit and deportment of Nebuchadnezzar from what they were on the plains of Dura. Then, we saw hi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar has another dream, and Daniel again is the only one of his officials able to interpret it. This dream concerns Nebuchadnezzar’s own need to acknowledge that th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 4:10 In this dream, Nebuchadnezzar saw an enormous TREE whose TOP touched the heavens. While Nebuchadnezzar was looking on, however, A WATCHER, A HOLY ONE,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ SECT. XV.—THE DREAM OF THE TREE AND ITS INTERPRETATION (Chap. Daniel 4:4) We come to the occasion of the royal proclamation. This was a dream and its remarkable fulfilment, the second pr...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DANIEL 4:1 THE MADNESS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. We follow here the division of chapters which we find in our English Version, and as, indeed, in all modern versions. The Aramaic concludes the t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Nebuchadnezzar the king, [a proclamation] unto all the people, nation, languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 4:20; Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 10:34; Jeremiah 12:2

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S PROCLAMATION Daniel 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom. As we open our study we find King Nebuchadnezzar relating the story of God's dealings with himself: "Nebuchad...

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