Daniel 2:4 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 2:4

Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

KJV

Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

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

Verse 4. "The Chaldeans replied to the king in Syriac." Up to this point what we have read has been recounted in Hebrew. From this point on until the vision of the third year of King Balthasar which Daniel saw in Susa, the account is written in Hebrew characters, to be sure, but in the Chaldee language, which he here calls Syriac.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In it the course, character, and crisis of the Gentile power are treated; whereas, in the other parts, which are in Hebrew, the things treated apply more particularly to the Jews and Jerusalem.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיְדַבְּר֧וּ	vay.da.be.Ru	and they spoke	H1696 →
הַכַּשְׂדִּ֛ים	ha.kas.Dim	the Chaldeans	H3778 →
לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ	la.Me.lekh	to the king	H4428 →
אֲרָמִ֑ית	'a.ra.Mit	Aramaic	H762 →
מַלְכָּא֙	mal.Ka'	king O	H4430 →
לְעָלְמִ֣ין	le.'al.Min	for ever	H5957 →
חֱיִ֔י	che.Yi	live!	H2418 →
אֱמַ֥ר	'e.Mar	tell!	H560 →
חֶלְמָ֛א	chel.Ma'	dream the	H2493 →
לְעַבְדָ֖ךְ	le.'av.da.yikh	to servant your	H5649 →
וּפִשְׁרָ֥א	u.fish.Ra'	and interpretation the	H6591 →
נְחַוֵּֽא׃	ne.cha.Ve'	we will declare	H2324 →

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
Daniel 3:9
saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, may you live forever!
leads to
- Daniel 6:21
  Then Daniel replied, “O king, may you live forever!
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 6:6
  So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, “O King Darius, may you live forever!
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
1 Kings 1:31
Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”
leads to
- Daniel 3:9
  saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, may you live forever!
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 5:10
  Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Ezra 4:7
And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
leads to
- 2 Kings 18:26
  Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the…
- Ezra 4:17
  Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.
Through
Isaiah 36:11
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on…
leads to
- Ezra 4:7
  And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
- 2 Kings 18:26–27
  Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the…