Daniel 4:35 BSB — MannaFest

Daniel 4:35

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

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ASV

and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

KJV

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

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

Verse 35. "'For He does according to His will, just as among the powers of heaven, so also among the inhabitants of the earth...'" This too Nebuchadnezzar expresses like a worldling. For God does not simply do what He wishes, but rather God wishes only that which is good. Nebuchadnezzar, however, expressed himself in this way, in order that even while he declared God's power, he might appear to impugn God's justice, on the ground that he had suffered unmerited punishment.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing - Are regarded as nothing in comparison with him. Compare Isa 40:15, note 17, note. Precisely the same sentiment occurs in Isaiah which is expressed here: “All nations before him are as nothing; and they are accounted unto him less than nothing and vanity.” And he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven - In the host of heaven - בחיל bechēyol - Greek, “in the power of heaven,” ἐν τῇ, δυνάμει en tē, dunamei.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 949: “The Unconquerable King” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1870)

NO one has ever numbered Nebuchadnezzar with the Prophets, or believed his language to be inspired. We have before us simply a statement made by an uninspired man, after passing through the most extraordinary experience. He had been among the greatest and proudest of men—he suddenly fell into the condition of a grass-eating ox, by losing his reason. And upon being restored, he acknowledged publicly the hand of the Most High.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3606 →
דָּיְרֵ֤י	da.'a.rei	[the] inhabitants of	H1753 →
אַרְעָא֙	'ar.'A'	earth the	H772 →
כְּלָ֣ה	ke.Lah	[are] as not	H3809 →
חֲשִׁיבִ֔ין	cha.shi.Vin	considered	H2804 →
וּֽכְמִצְבְּיֵ֗הּ	u.khe.mitz.be.Yeh	and as pleases he	H6634 →
עָבֵד֙	'a.Ved	[he is] doing	H5648 →
בְּחֵ֣יל	be.Cheil	with [the] army of	H2429 →
שְׁמַיָּ֔א	she.mai.Ya'	heavens the	H8065 →
וְדָיְרֵ֖י	ve.da.'a.rei	and [the] inhabitants of	H1753 →
אַרְעָ֑א	'ar.'A'	earth the	H772 →
וְלָ֤א	ve.La'	and not	H3809 →
אִיתַי֙	'i.Tai	there	H383 →
דִּֽי־	di-	[is] who	H1768 →
יְמַחֵ֣א	ye.ma.Che'	he will strike	H4223 →
בִידֵ֔הּ	vi.Deh	on hand his	H3028 →
וְיֵ֥אמַר	ve.Ye.mar	so he may say	H560 →
לֵ֖הּ	leh	to him
מָ֥ה	mah	what?	H4101 →
עֲבַֽדְתְּ׃	'a.Vadt	have you done	H5648 →

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

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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
Job 42:2
“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
leads to
- Matthew 19:26
  Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- Mark 10:27
  Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
- Genesis 18:14
  Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
- Hebrews 4:12–13
  For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Jeremiah 32:17
  “Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
Through
Psalms 115:3
Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
leads to
- Isaiah 46:10
  I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 135:6
  The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
- Ephesians 1:11
  In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Daniel