Daniel 4:32 English Standard Version (ESV). The prophecy goes to an end when it is realized, is fulfilled. Some think Nebuchadnezzar to have been changed into a beast; but this is too harsh and absurd. Daniel 4:32 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Daniel 4:32 Parallel Verses. - Thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen. x. If Nebuchadnezzar had been cast out by a tumult, he would not have been so quickly recalled: then, since God wished to make an example of him for all generations, I suppose him to have been driven out from common society for a length of time. Hence thou mayest know him to be the ruler. The resemblances between the narrative in Daniel and the Babylonian legend can hardly be accidental”: in both the king is on the roof of the palace; in the one case a prophetic voice declares to him that he will be driven from men, and have his abode with the beasts of the field, in the other he invokes a similar fate upon his nation’s foe. בּנה designates, as בּנה more frequently, not the building or founding of a city, for the founding of Babylon took place in the earliest times after the Flood (Genesis 11), and was dedicated to the god Belus, or the mythic Semiramis, i.e., in the pre-historic time; but בּנה means the building up, the enlargement, the adorning of the city מלכוּ לבּית, for the house of the kingdom, i.e., for a royal residence; cf. 4:32. Some restrict this to days, but this is contrary not only to every reason, but to every pretext. The madness that fell upon him induced him to forsake society, and to run to the woods and deserts, where he lived like a wild beast, his hairs growing long and thick, so as to be a substitute for clothing; and his nails strong and hooked, that he might the better climb trees and grub up the ground, in order to get roots and earth-nuts. 10. A voice fell from heaven. The fulfilling is related in the words of the prophecy. i. p. 59; also the delineation of these buildings in Duncker's Gesch. Ver. He says, that God may be Lord in the kingdom of men; because nothing is more difficult than to persuade tyrants to submit to the power of God. Whether tyrants obtain power, or sovereigns are pious and just, all are governed by God’s secret counsel, since otherwise there could be no king of the world. He binds some with a belt, and looseth the bonds of others, as it is said in the book of Job. R. K. Harrison's Introduction to the OT, page 1115-1117). 1. נפל as in Isaiah 9:7, of the sudden coming of a divine revelation. his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. Here Daniel closes the interpretation of the dream, and shews how God did not treat King Nebuchadnezzar so severely by not giving way to clemency.He mitigates, indeed, the extreme rigor of the punishment, to induce Nebuchadnezzar to call upon God and repent, through indulging the hope of pardon, as a clearer exhortation will afterwards follow. Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. ver. Had the king remembered that dream and its interpretation, he would scarcely have spoken so proudly of his splendid city which he had built as he does in v. 27 (Daniel 4:30). 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