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the king sent. This great Durbar would hardly have taken place till after the campaign referred to in note on "came" (Dan_1:1). It was therefore probably held about 475 B. C, in Daniel's thirty-eighth year, twenty years after Nebuchadnezzar's dream of himself, the "head of gold" (Dan 2).
to gather together, &c. Note the eight technical terms. Well known to Daniel, but difficult for a Jew in Jer 300 years later to enumerate so minutely and so accurately.
princes = satraps.
governors. See note on Dan_2:48.
captains = pashas (as in Neh_5:14, Neh_5:18. Hag_1:14), the first three being governmental.
judges = viziers, or chief judges.
treasurers: these two being courtiers.
counsellors = counsellors of State, judges. The same word as in Dan_3:3. Not the same word as in verses: Dan_3:24, Dan_3:27.
sheriffs = lawyers; these two being legal.
rulers, &c. = superintendents, being functional and general.