DREAMS
King Nebuchadnezzar and his counselors 2:1-13.2:1 King has a bad dream.
2:2-3 Calls his magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and Chaldeans to interpret.
Compare Ezekiel 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their’s: neither shall there be wailing for them.
Compare Isaiah 47:12-13 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
2:4 O yea, we can help.
2:5-6 king promises punishments or gifts and rewards and great honour.
2:7 Tell us the dream… we will interpret it.
2:8 The stall
2:9 What am I paying you for? Interpret the Dream.
Compare Esther 4:11 All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
2:10-11 What you want is a miracle … which we can’t do.
There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter
2:12-13 DEATH TO ALL … the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Compare Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Daniel Gets Involved
2:14-15 Daniel hears of the threat.
2:16 He asks for some time.
2:17-18 The Prayer meetin
2:19 God speaks to Daniel the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision
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