A Commentary on the Book of DanielCrocker & Brewster, 1850 - 496 pages |
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Abydenus angel Antiochus Antiochus Epiphanes Astyages Babylon Babylonish beast Belshazzar Berosus book of Daniel Chaldeans Chaldee chap clause comp course Ctesias Cyaxares Cyrus Darius Darius the Mede death designates dominion dream Egypt emph empire employed Epiphanes exile expression Ezekiel fact fourth dynasty Greek Hävernick heathen heaven Hebrew Hengstenberg Herodotus holy interpretation Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Kethibh king kingdom Lengerke little horn Macc Maccabaean Magi matter means Mede merely Messianic narration nature Nebuchadnezzar noun object omitted Palestine passage Peal period Persian plainly plur preceding prediction prince probable prophecy prophet Ptolemy Qeri question regard reign rendered respect Roman satraps Scriptures seems sense sequel seventy weeks shows Sirach stand suff suppose symbol Syrian temple things thou tion translated verb verse vision whole word writer Xenophon καὶ
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Page 89 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 442 - In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Page 184 - And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven ; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Page 20 - IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his God.
Page 116 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever...
Page 19 - Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
Page 108 - This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation : but thou art able ; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.
Page 100 - Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
Page 165 - And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
Page 55 - The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?