Teks -- Daniel 4:5 (NET)

4:5 I saw a dream that frightened me badly. The things I imagined while lying on my bed– these visions of my mind– were terrifying me.

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Clarke: Dan 4:5 - I saw a dream

I saw a dream - See this dream circumstantially explained in the following verses.

TSK: Dan 4:5 - a dream // and the thoughts

a dream : Dan 2:1, Dan 5:5, Dan 5:6, Dan 5:10, Dan 7:28; Gen 41:1; Job 7:13, Job 7:14

and the thoughts : Dan 2:28, Dan 2:29

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Poole: Dan 4:5

There is no felicity in this world lasting; a black cloud, big with storm and tempest, spoils the fairest sun-shine day. They that fear not God shall be frighted by him. God doth justly make epicures and tyrants uneasy in the midst of their fool’ s paradise, where if the fool saith in his heart, There is no God, he shall soon find in his heart to think otherwise.

Haydock: Dan 4:5 - Colleague // My god // Gods

Colleague. Chaldee also, "another, or afterwards, (Haydock) or at last." (Calmet) ---

My god. He says this, because the name of Baltassar, or Belteshazzar, is derived from the name of Bel, the chief god of the Babylonians. (Challoner) ---

Gods. He speaks conformably to his false opinion; (St. Jerome) or, being instructed by Daniel, he testifies that the Holy Spirit enlightens the prophet. (Theod. Greek has "god," which St. Jerome disapproves; though the plural is often used for the true God. Reason evinces that only the Deity can disclose the secrets of futurity. (Genesis xli. 38.) (Calmet)

Gill: Dan 4:5 - I saw a dream which made me afraid // and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me

I saw a dream which made me afraid,.... Things were represented to his fancy in a dream, as if he saw them with his eyes, as the tree, its leaves and fruit; the shaking and cutting it down to the stump, &c.; and though he did not understand the meaning of it, yet he thought it portended some evil, which threw him into a panic; he was afraid that something bad would befall him, though he knew not what: thus God can make the minds of the greatest men uneasy amidst all their glory, pride, and pleasure:

and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me; the thoughts that came into his mind while he was upon his bed dreaming, and the things which were represented to his fancy in his brain, he remembered when awake, gave him a great deal of trouble and uneasiness, what should be the meaning of them, and what would be the issue and event of these things.