Daniel 4:28

All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
All	כֹּ֣לָּא Ko.la'	H3606	properly · noun, common both genders singular determined + particle of affirmation
came	מְּטָ֔א me.Ta'	H4291	to arrive · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
upon	עַל 'al-	H5922	above · preposition
king	מַלְכָּֽא mal.Ka'	H4430	a king · noun, common both genders singular determined + particle of affirmation
Nebuchadnezzar	נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר ne.vu.khad.ne.Tzar	H5020	Nebukadnetstsar (or -retstsar · proper noun, a man's name

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Cross-references

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken…
Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said…
Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:28-33

We have here Nebuchadnezzar's dream accomplished, and Daniel's application of it to him justified and confirmed. How he took it we are not told, whether he was pleased with Daniel or displeased; but here we have, I. God's patience with him: All this came upon him, but not till twelve months after (Dan 4:29), so long there was a lengthening of his tranquility, though it does not appear that he broke off his sins, or showed any mercy to the poor captives, for this was still God's quarrel with him, that he opened not the house of his prisoners, Isa 14:17. Daniel having counselled him to repent, God so far confirmed his word that he gave him space to repent; he let him alone this year also, this…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 4:27

break off--as a galling yoke (Gen 27:40); sin is a heavy load (Mat 11:28). The Septuagint and Vulgate translate not so well, "redeem," which is made an argument for Rome's doctrine of the expiation of sins by meritorious works. Even translate it so, it can only mean; Repent and show the reality of thy repentance by works of justice and charity (compare Luk 11:41); so God will remit thy punishment. The trouble will be longer before it comes, or shorter when it does come. Compare the cases of Hezekiah, Isa 38:1-5; Nineveh, Jon 3:5-10; Jer 18:7-8. The change is not in God, but in the sinner who repents. As the king who had provoked God's judgments by sin, so he might avert it by a return to rig…

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Adam Clarke on Daniel 4:27

Break off thy sins by righteousness - Do justice. Thou hast been an oppressive man; show mercy to the poor, many of whom have been made such by thyself: witness the whole nation of the Jews. He was to cease from his sins - repent and bring forth fruits meet for repentance, in order that he might find mercy at the hand of God.

John Gill on Daniel 4:28

All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. All that was signified in the dream, his madness, the removal of him from the administration of government, and the brutal life he lived for seven years; for this was not a mere parable or fiction, as some have thought, framed to describe the state and punishment of a proud man, but was a real fact; though it is not made mention of by any historians, excepting what has been observed before out of Abydenus (n); see Gill on Daniel 4:16, yet there is no reason to doubt of the truth of it, from this relation of Daniel; and is further confirmed by his observing the same to Belshazzar his grandson some years after it was done, as a known thing, and as an…

The Church Fathers

And so after twelve months all these things happened to king Nebuchadnezzar. For neither did Scripture lie nor did Daniel deceive him, but he taught him beforehand that these things were about to be accomplished in him.
— Hippolytus of Rome, Commentary on Daniel 3.8.1-2

And so similarly it happened also to Nebuchadnezzar. For indeed after he began the eighteenth year, he set up the image, just as has been said in the book before this, and its dimensions were also made known. After the year with twelve months was fulfilled, his kingdom was taken away from him so that the dream which was seen by him was fulfilled and he who had captured others, himself became a fugitive, and he who punished the Hebrews in a strange land, even he was deservedly punished in a desolate land.
— Hippolytus of Rome, Commentary on Daniel 3.5.1

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Dictionary and topics

Media — Heb. Madai, which is rendered in the Authorized Version (1) “Madai,” Gen. 10:2; (2) “Medes,” 2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; (3) “Media,” Esther 1:3; 10:2; Isa. 21:2; Dan. 8:20; (4) “Mede,” only in Dan. 11:1.…
Converts · Nebuchadnezzar — Nebuchadnezzar
Testimony · RELIGIOUS, EXEMPLIFIED — RELIGIOUS, EXEMPLIFIED

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Daniel 4:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:28-33

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 4:27

Adam Clarke on Daniel 4:27

John Gill on Daniel 4:28

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Daniel 4:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:28-33

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 4:27

Adam Clarke on Daniel 4:27

John Gill on Daniel 4:28

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Daniel 4:28-32

Keil & Delitzsch on Daniel 4:28-33

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Daniel 4:28-33

Rashi on Daniel 4:28