Daniel 2:10 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 2:10

The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.

BSB

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ASV

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter, forasmuch as no king, lord, or ruler, hath asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

KJV

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TWO (420)

Verses 9, 10. "Therefore tell me the dream, that I may be certain that ye are giving me its true interpretation. The Chaldeans therefore made this reply in the king's presence: 'There is no man on earth who would be able to fulfil what thou hast spoken, O king!'" The magi confess, along with the soothsayers - and all secular learning concurs - that foreknowledge of the future lies not in man's province but in God's. By this test it is proved that the prophets who proclaimed things to come spoke by the Spirit of God.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Hippolytus of Rome

Commentary on Daniel 2.4 (235)

And so since they said that what the king sought was impossible to be recounted by a man, God showed them that the things which are impossible with men, are possible with God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There is not a man upon the earth - The thing is utterly impossible to man. This was their decision: and when Daniel gave the dream, with its interpretation, they knew that the spirit of the holy gods was in him. So, even according to their own theology, he was immeasurably greater than the wisest in Babylon or in the world.

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Original language & word study

30 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עֲנ֨וֹ	a.No	they replied	H6032 →
כַשְׂדָּאֵ֤י	khas.da.i	Chaldeans the	H3779 →
קֳדָם־	ko.dom-	before	H6925 →
מַלְכָּא֙	mal.Ka'	king the	H4430 →
וְאָ֣מְרִ֔ין	ve.'A.me.Rin	and [they were] saying	H560 →
לָֽא־	la'-	not	H3809 →
אִיתַ֤י	'i.Tai	there	H383 →
אֲנָשׁ֙	'a.Nash	[is] a person	H606 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5922 →
יַבֶּשְׁתָּ֔א	ya.besh.Ta'	earth the	H3007 →
דִּ֚י	di	who	H1768 →
מִלַּ֣ת	mi.Lat	[the] matter of	H4406 →
מַלְכָּ֔א	mal.Ka'	king the	H4430 →
יוּכַ֖ל	yu.Khal	he will be able	H3202 →
לְהַחֲוָיָ֑ה	le.ha.cha.va.Yah	to declare	H2324 →
כָּל־	kol-	as to
קֳבֵ֗ל	ko.Vel	because	H6903 →
דִּ֚י	di	that	H1768 →
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3606 →
מֶ֙לֶךְ֙	Me.lekh	king	H4430 →
רַ֣ב	rav	great	H7229 →
וְשַׁלִּ֔יט	ve.sha.Lit	and powerful	H7990 →
מִלָּ֤ה	mi.Lah	a matter	H4406 →
כִדְנָה֙	khid.Nah	like this	H1836 →
לָ֣א	la'	not	H3809 →
שְׁאֵ֔ל	she.'El	he has asked	H7593 →
לְכָל־	le.khol	to any	H3606 →
חַרְטֹּ֖ם	chart.Tom	magician	H2749 →
וְאָשַׁ֥ף	ve.'a.Shaf	and conjurer	H826 →
וְכַשְׂדָּֽי׃	ve.khas.Dai	and Chaldean	H3779 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Daniel 2:27
Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, enchanter, medium, or magician can explain to the king the mystery of which he inquires.
leads to
- Daniel 2:2
  So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,
- Isaiah 44:25
  who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
- Isaiah 47:12–14
  So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
- Daniel 2:10–11
  The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
- Daniel 5:7–8
  The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be…