Daniel 4:31

The divine rebuke alights immediately upon the king.

there fell a voice from heaven such as was called by the later Jews a Bath Ḳôl, lit. -the daughter of a voice" (the accompanying verb being usually -came forth"), the term applied by them to a divine voice unaccompanied by any visible manifestation. Cf. Apoc. of Baruch, xiii. 1, -a voice came from heaven," xxii. 1; and see further Weber, System der Altsynag. Theol.p. 187 f., Dalman, Die Worte Jesu, p. 167 f., Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus, i. 286, and the particulars given in Hamburger's Real-Encyclop. für Bibel u. Talmud, vol. ii., s. v. Bathkol. The voices from heaven in the N.T. (as Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5; John 12:28; Acts 11:7; Acts 11:9; Revelation 10:4) would all, in Jewish phraseology, be so described.