Daniel 2:9 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 2:9

If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”

BSB

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ASV

But if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but one law for you; for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me the interpretation thereof.

KJV

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

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Commentary

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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.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
דִּ֣י	di	that	H1768 →
הֵן־	hen-	if	H2006 →
חֶלְמָא֩	chel.Ma'	dream the	H2493 →
לָ֨א	la'	not	H3809 →
תְהֽוֹדְעֻנַּ֜נִי	te.hod.'u.Na.ni	you will make known to me	H3046 →
חֲדָה־	cha.dah-	[is] one	H2298 →
הִ֣יא	hi'	it	H1932 →
דָֽתְכ֗וֹן	da.te.Khon	decree your	H1882 →
וּמִלָּ֨ה	u.mi.Lah	and a word	H4406 →
כִדְבָ֤ה	khid.Vah	a lie	H3538 →
וּשְׁחִיתָה֙	u.she.chi.Tah	and corrupt	H7844 →
הִזְדְּמִנְתּוּן֙	haz.min.tun	you have agreed together	H2164 →
לְמֵאמַ֣ר	le.me.Mar	to say	H560 →
קָֽדָמַ֔י	ka.da.Mai	before me	H6925 →
עַ֛ד	'ad	until	H5705 →
דִּ֥י	di	that	H1768 →
עִדָּנָ֖א	'i.da.Na'	time the	H5732 →
יִשְׁתַּנֵּ֑א	yish.ta.Ne'	it will be changed	H8133 →
לָהֵ֗ן	la.Hen	therefore	H2006 →
חֶלְמָא֙	chel.Ma'	dream the	H2493 →
אֱמַ֣רוּ	'e.Ma.ru	tell!	H560 →
לִ֔י	Li	to me
וְֽאִנְדַּ֕ע	ve.'in.Da'	so I may know	H3046 →
דִּ֥י	di	that	H1768 →
פִשְׁרֵ֖הּ	fish.Reh	interpretation its	H6591 →
תְּהַחֲוֻנַּֽנִי׃	te.ha.cha.vu.Na.ni	you will declare to me	H2324 →

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The walk

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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 2:21
He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
leads to
- Psalms 75:5–7
  Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
- Psalms 31:14–15
  But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
- Psalms 113:7–8
  He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- Daniel 4:17
  This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it…
- Daniel 7:25
  He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for…
Through
Daniel 7:25
He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for…
leads to
- Daniel 12:7
  And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever,…
- Revelation 12:14
  But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times,…
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4
  He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.