Daniel 4:29
in Daniel 4Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
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ASV
At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
KJV
At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
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This verse in Daniel 4
Commentary
8 notes on this verseAnd so similarly it happened also to Nebuchadnezzar. For indeed after he began the eighteenth year, he set up the image, just as has been said in the book before this, and its dimensions were also made known. After the year with twelve months was fulfilled, his kingdom was taken away from him so that the dream which was seen by him was fulfilled and he who had captured others, himself became a fugitive, and he who punished the Hebrews in a strange land, even he was deservedly punished in a desolate land.
This site's exposition
came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar
on Daniel 4:28-30
All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar, but not for twelve months, a delay the bench reads as God's own patience giving the counsel of verse 27 its full season to be taken up or refused. The king is found walking in his own palace naming his own achievement, is not this great Babylon, that I have built, the pride the whole vision existed to answer spoken aloud in the very words the sentence was meant to prevent. Barnes notes the irony of the timing, judgment falling in the same breath as the boast that provoked it.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
And so after twelve months all these things happened to king Nebuchadnezzar. For neither did Scripture lie nor did Daniel deceive him, but he taught him beforehand that these things were about to be accomplished in him.
The text then conveys also the span of divine longsuffering: after the passage of twelve months the threat in the prophecy reached its factual conclusion. Though given such a length of time to repent, he failed to meet the deadline for repentance; it would be …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
At the end of twelve months,....
He walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon, in pomp and pride, pleasing himself with the view of that vast city, which, with all the territories thereunto belonging, was under his command, and he said, either to himself or to those about him, perhaps some foreigners to whom he was showing his kingdom and the glory of it, Is not this great Babylon?
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
At the first announcement of the coming judgment he was alarmed, as Ahab (1Ki 21:27), but did not thoroughly repent; so when judgment was not executed at once, he thought it would never come, and so returned to his former pride (Ec 8:11). in the palace--rather, upon the (flat) palace roof, whence he could contemplate the splendor of Babylon.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
At the end of twelve months - After the dream, and the interpretation - giving him ample opportunity to repent, and to reform his life, and to avoid the calamity. He walked in the palace - Margin, “upon.” The margin is the more correct rendering. The roofs of houses in the East are made flat, and furnish a common place of promenade, especially in the cool of the evening. See the note at Mat 9:
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לִקְצָ֥ת | liktzat | to [the] end of | H7118 → | 3 times |
| יַרְחִ֖ין | yarchin | months | H3393 → | |
| תְּרֵֽי־ | terei- | two [plus] | H8648 → | |
| עֲשַׂ֑ר | ʾasar | ten | H6236 → | 6 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5922 → | 104 times |
| הֵיכַ֧ל | heikhal | [the] palace of | H1965 → | 13 times |
| מַלְכוּתָ֛א | malkhuta' | kingdom the | H4437 → | 57 times |
| דִּ֥י | di | of | H1768 → | 345 times |
| בָבֶ֖ל | vavel | Babylon | H895 → | 25 times |
| מְהַלֵּ֥ךְ | mehalekh | walking about | H1981 → | 3 times |
| הֲוָֽה׃ | havah | he was | H1934 → | 71 times |
לִקְצָ֥תto [the] end of
liktzatH7118 →3 times
יַרְחִ֖יןmonths
yarchinH3393 →
תְּרֵֽי־two [plus]
terei-H8648 →
עֲשַׂ֑רten
ʾasarH6236 →6 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5922 →104 times
הֵיכַ֧ל[the] palace of
heikhalH1965 →13 times
מַלְכוּתָ֛אkingdom the
malkhuta'H4437 →57 times
דִּ֥יof
diH1768 →345 times
בָבֶ֖לBabylon
vavelH895 →25 times
מְהַלֵּ֥ךְwalking about
mehalekhH1981 →3 times
הֲוָֽה׃he was
havahH1934 →71 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
it leads to
- Romans 2:4–5
Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 26:10
Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
- Psalms 50:21–22
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
- 2 Peter 3:3–10
Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
- Romans 2:4–5
Through
Genesis 6:3So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
it leads to
- Nehemiah 9:30
You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
- Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
- Nehemiah 9:30
Through
1 Peter 3:20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
it leads to
- Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
- Hebrews 11:7
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Daniel; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel; Hippolytus of Rome, Commentary on Daniel 3.5.1; Hippolytus of Rome, Commentary on Daniel 3.8.1-2; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 4:27.