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DANIEL CHAPTER 2
In this chapter are four principal parts:
I. The king’s, dream, Dan_2:1.
II. The wise men’s ignorance and danger, Dan_2:2-13.
III. The revelation and interpretation of the dream by Daniel, Dan_2:14-45.
IV. The advancement of Daniel to great honour by that means, Dan_2:46-49.
In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Heb.
in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, for this was properly in the fifth year of that king’s reign and of Daniel’s captivity, and the ninth year of Jehoiakim; but in the second year after Daniel had by his three years’ preparation been brought before the king and approved, then the king dreamed.
Dreamed dreams; it was one dream, but of many parts, therefore called dreams; chiefly for what follows.
His spirit was troubled; by reason of the strangeness of it, he was terrified and in great consternation, and this made him awake.