Daniel 2:4
What does Daniel 2:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Daniel 2:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the Chaldeans speak to the king <FI>in<Fi> Aramaean, `O king, to the ages live, tell the dream to thy servants, and the interpretation we do shew.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, O king, live for ever! tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
Context
v.3And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
v.4This passage
v.5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 10:24
And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom Jehovah hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, Long live the king.
- Isaiah 36:11
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
- Daniel 5:8
Then came in all the king’s wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
- Matthew 21:9
And the multitudes that went before him, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
- Isaiah 44:25
that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
- Genesis 31:47
And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
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