Daniel 3:26

mouth Aram. door.

God Most High] so Daniel 4:2; Daniel 5:18; Daniel 5:21: without -God," Daniel 4:17; Daniel 4:24-25; Daniel 4:32; Daniel 4:34; Daniel 7:25 (first time); and with the adj. in a more Hebraistic form, Daniel 7:18; Daniel 7:22; Daniel 7:25 (second time), 27. The title is found in Hebrew, Genesis 14:18-20; Genesis 14:22 (of the deity of Melchizedek, identified by the narrator with Jehovah); elsewhere only in poetry, especially in the Psalms, as Psalms 57:2, though usually without -God," as Psalms 9:3; Psalms 18:13: as applied to Jehovah, it is a title of dignity and respect, denoting Him as one who is supreme, whether over the earth, as ruler and governor of the world (e.g. Psalms 47:2), or over other gods (e.g. Psalms 95:3: cf. Cheyne on Ps. 7:18). It occurs not unfrequently with the same force in the Apocrypha, being used sometimes by Israelites (cf. Luke 1:32; Luke 1:35; Luke 1:76), and sometimes (as here and Daniel 4:2; Daniel 4:34, cf. Isaiah 14:14) placed in the mouth of heathen speakers (Esther 2:3; 1Es 6:31; 1Es 8:19; 1Es 8:21, al.: cf. Mark 5:7; Acts 16:17): it is also common (as a title, without -God") in the Book of Enoch. See more fully the article Most High in Hastings" Dict. of the Bible.