Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 2:23
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23. 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" ( Luke 1:54 ; Luke 1:55 ; compare Luke 1:55- : ). given me wisdom and might —Thou being the fountain of both; referring to Luke 1:55- : . 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, " Luke 1:55- : ). Impostors are compelled by the God of truth to eat up their own words. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-24" class="com-number"
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