Teks -- Daniel 5:11 (NET)

5:11 There is a man in your kingdom who has within him a spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he proved to have insight, discernment, and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners.

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JFB: Dan 5:11 - spirit of the holy gods

She remembers and repeats Nebuchadnezzar's language (Dan 4:8-9, Dan 4:18). As Daniel was probably, according to Oriental custom, deprived of the office to which Nebuchadnezzar had promoted him, as "master of the magicians" (Dan 4:9), at the king's death, Belshazzar might easily be ignorant of his services.

JFB: Dan 5:11 - the king . . . thy father the king . . . thy father

The repetition marks with emphatic gravity both the excellencies of Daniel, and the fact that Nebuchadnezzar, whom Belshazzar is bound to reverence as his father, had sought counsel from him in similar circumstances.

Clarke: Dan 5:11 - Nebuchadnezzar thy father

Nebuchadnezzar thy father - See the note on Dan 5:1 (note).

TSK: Dan 5:11 - a man // father // light // Nebuchadnezzar // master

a man : Dan 2:47, Dan 4:8, Dan 4:9, Dan 4:18; Gen 41:11-15

father : or, grandfather, Dan 5:2

light : Dan 2:11; 2Sa 14:17; Act 12:22, Act 14:11; Rev 3:9

Nebuchadnezzar : Nebuchadnezzar was certainly the grandfather of Belshazzar; but the term father in Hebrew and Chaldee is frequently used to denote a progenitor, or ancestor, however remote.

master : Dan 2:48, Dan 4:9; Act 16:16

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Poole: Dan 5:11 - A man in whom is the spirit of the holy gods

A man in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: this man was Daniel; but how came the king not to think of him? Daniel possibly was out of his place, by his own resignation, or his enemies’ malicious contrivance, and was willing to withdraw himself from the court, and from the company of the soothsayers, and would not be reckoned one of them.

Haydock: Dan 5:11 - Father

Father. So a grandfather might be styled. (Jeremias xxvii. 7.) (Worthington) ---Daniel was not perhaps at the head of the wise men. (Calmet) ---

They were too jealous to mention him; and the intoxicated king and courtiers remembered not his merit, till an aged matron suggested that he should be consulted. He was probably (Haydock) in some office, at Susa, yet happened to be then in Babylon, (Calmet) which was besieged; and thither he might have retired at the approached of Cyrus.

Gill: Dan 5:11 - There is a man in thy kingdom // art thou that Daniel // in whom is the spirit of the holy gods // and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him // whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers

There is a man in thy kingdom,.... She does not say in his court; very probably, after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, perhaps in one of the former reigns, he was removed from his offices; for, had he been in one, very likely the queen would have described him by it; and this seems to receive confirmation by the question Belshazzar put to him upon his coming into his presence,

art thou that Daniel, &c.; and only says that he had heard of him, Dan 5:13,

in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; something divine, something more than human; she uses the very words of Nebuchadnezzar; which seems to confirm that opinion, that she was his widow, Dan 4:8,

and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; "light" in the knowledge of things obscure; understanding in the interpretation of dreams; and "wisdom" in things both human and divine, like that of an angel of God, as Jacchiades interprets "Elohim": of this instances were given in the days of his grandfather, for so Nebuchadnezzar was; nor is it unusual for a grandfather to be called a father, and even a more remote ancestor; which instances were, telling him his dream when he had forgot it, as well as the interpretation of it; and explaining his dream or vision of the tree cut down to its stump; of which see Daniel chapters two and four:

whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, Dan 2:48 she seems tacitly to upbraid him with his neglect of such a man, or with turning him out of his office, when so great a prince as his grandfather was took so much notice of him, and so highly advanced him.