Daniel 2:14 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 2:14

When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon, Daniel replied with discretion and tact.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

KJV

Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Captain of the king’s guard - Chief of the king’s executioners or slaughter men. Margin, רב תבחיא rab tabachaiya, chief of the butchers, he that took off the heads of those whom the king ordered to be slain, because they had in any case displeased him. “Go and bring me the head of Giaffer.” The honorable butcher went and brought the head in a bag on a dish. It was Herod’s chief butcher that brought the head of John the Baptist in a dish to the delicate daughter of Herodias. This was the custom of the country.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בֵּאדַ֣יִן	be.Da.yin	<in> then	H116 →
דָּנִיֵּ֗אל	da.ni.Yel	Daniel	H1841 →
הֲתִיב֙	ha.Tiv	he sent back	H8421 →
עֵטָ֣א	'e.Ta'	counsel	H5843 →
וּטְעֵ֔ם	u.te.'Em	and discretion	H2942 →
לְאַרְי֕וֹךְ	le.'ar.Yokh	to Arioch	H746 →
רַב־	rav-	[the] chief	H7229 →
טַבָּחַיָּ֖א	ta.ba.chai.Ya'	executioners the	H2877 →
דִּ֣י	di	of	H1768 →
מַלְכָּ֑א	mal.Ka'	king the	H4430 →
דִּ֚י	di	who	H1768 →
נְפַ֣ק	ne.Fak	he went out	H5312 →
לְקַטָּלָ֔ה	le.ka.ta.Lah	to kill	H6992 →
לְחַכִּימֵ֖י	le.cha.ki.Mei	<obj.> [the] wise men of	H2445 →
בָּבֶֽל׃	ba.Vel	Babylon	H895 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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.

Through
Jeremiah 52:12
On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
leads to
- 2 Kings 25:8
  On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 52:29
  in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
- Jeremiah 39:9
  Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
- Zechariah 8:19
  “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of…
Through
Jeremiah 39:9
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
leads to
- Jeremiah 40:1
  This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…
- Genesis 37:36
  Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
Through
Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
leads to
- Genesis 37:28
  So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
- Genesis 40:4
  The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,