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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 2:21 - 2:21
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changeth ... times ... seasons - “He herein gives a general preparatory intimation, that the dream of Nebuchadnezzar is concerning the changes and successions of kingdoms” [Jerome]. The “times” are the phases and periods of duration of empires (compare Dan 7:25; 1Ch 12:32; 1Ch 29:30); the “seasons” the fitting times for their culmination, decline, and fall (Ecc 3:1; Act 1:7; 1Th 5:1). The vicissitudes of states, with their times and seasons, are not regulated by chance or fate, as the heathen thought, but by God.
removed kings - (Job 12:18; Psa 75:6, Psa 75:7; Jer 27:5; compare 1Sa 2:7, 1Sa 2:8).
giveth wisdom - (1Ki 3:9-12; Jam 1:5).