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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 2:23 - 2:23
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thee ... thee - He ascribes all the glory to God.
God of my fathers - Thou hast shown Thyself the same God of grace to me, a captive exile, as Thou didst to Israel of old and this on account of the covenant made with our “fathers” (Luk 1:54, Luk 1:55; compare Psa 106:45).
given me wisdom and might - Thou being the fountain of both; referring to Dan 2:20. Whatever wise ability I have to stay the execution of the king’s cruel decree, is Thy gift.
me ... we ... us - The revelation was given to Daniel, as “me” implies; yet with just modesty he joins his friends with him; because it was to their joint prayers, and not to his individually, that he owed the revelation from God.
known ... the king’s matter - the very words in which the Chaldeans had denied the possibility of any man on earth telling the dream (“not a man upon the earth can show the king’s matter,” Dan 2:10). Impostors are compelled by the God of truth to eat up their own words.