Daniel 4:23

DANIEL—NOTE ON Daniel 4:23 The image of the tree reaching to the heavens is a reminder of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1). Such pride ends in disaster. Nebuchadnezzar, who thought of himself in godlike terms, would become beastlike so that he could learn that he is merely human. When the tree was cut down, the stump and the roots were allowed to remain, bound in iron and bronze, possibly suggesting that Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom will be protected and then established more firmly after he learned to honor the true God.