Daniel 2

Daniel 2:2

I lifted up my hand - I sware. Them - So all the murmuring, disobedient, unbelieving generation was excluded, and their children were brought in.

Daniel 2:5

Walk ye not - Live not as your fathers did.

Daniel 2:7

Hallow - Remember to keep them holy.

Daniel 2:9

I withdrew - God seems to take the posture of one that was just going to smite, yet draws back that he might spare.

Daniel 2:10

I lifted - I sware.

Daniel 2:12

Wherefore - Because they rejected my good laws and judgments. I gave them - Not by enjoining, but by permitting them to make such for themselves. Not good - That were pernicious to the users.

Daniel 2:13

Polluted - I permitted them to pollute themselves. Might know - Be forced to own, that the Lord is a mighty king in punishing those that would not have him a gracious king in governing them.

Daniel 2:16

What - What mean you that you go to the high place? What do you find so inviting there, that you will leave God’s altar, where he requires your attendance, to frequent such places as he has forbidden you to worship in? Bamah - That is, the high place.

Daniel 2:18

Shall I be enquired of - Are you fit to ask counsel of me, whom you have so obstinately forsaken and reproached?

Daniel 2:19

And that - God to convince them, tells them what they think and have purposed. Shall not be - Shall be quite frustrated. We will be - Will unite with them in marriages, commerce, and religion too; and then we shall be safe among them.

Daniel 2:21

The people - Sidonians, Ammonites, Moabites, or whoever they were, to whom the apostate Jews betook themselves, where they thought to lurk, God will bring them thence into Babylonish captivity.

Daniel 2:22

Bring you - Drive you. The wilderness - Into the most horrid parts of the world; into the mountainous parts of Media, Hyrcania, Iberia, Caspia, Albania, and Scythia. Plead with you - Pass sentence, and execute it on you.

Daniel 2:23

Your fathers - Who died there, and never entered Canaan.

Daniel 2:24

I will cause - I will bring you out by number, so that you shall either own my scepter, or by a conquered subjection, yield to my sword and power. Under the rod - Referring to the manner of shepherds in that country, who did tell their sheep in, and out of the fold. Bring you - The voluntary and obedient into covenant with myself.

Daniel 2:25

The rebels - The stubborn sinners.

Daniel 2:26

But pollute - But while ye are such idolaters, forbear to take my name into your lips.

Daniel 2:27

Mine holy mountain - Sion, God’s holy hill, Psalms 2:6. Holy by designation, and God’s own appointing it for his temple and presence. Of the height - Sion, tho’ lower than many other hills, yet was above them all for God’s peculiar presence. In the land - Their own land. Your offerings - When I have brought you into the land, then I will require your offerings as formerly: you shall see my temple built, Jerusalem filled with inhabitants, and my worship restored.

Daniel 2:28

Sanctified - Magnified and praised for the good I do to my people.

Daniel 2:30

Remember - Review your former ways with sorrow: remember, and grieve.

Daniel 2:33

The south - Look toward Jerusalem, and the land of Canaan. Drop thy word - Let thy word distil, begin with softer words, before thou shower down with the vehemency of a storm. The forest - Jerusalem, which was become like a forest.

Daniel 2:34

Every green tree - All that flourish, and all that are poor. All faces - All persons and orders of men, from one end of the land to the other.

Daniel 2:36

Parables - So absolutely, that we cannot understand him.

Daniel 2:38

Parables - So absolutely, that we cannot understand him.

Daniel 2:39

The holy places - The temple and all parts of it.

Daniel 2:40

The righteous - It is no unusual thing, that in publick calamities, those who are indeed righteous should be involved with others.

Daniel 2:41

All flesh - All the Jews that dwell in the land.

Daniel 2:42

Shall not return - It shall not return into the scabbard ’till it hath done full execution.

Daniel 2:43

Sigh therefore - Thereby express deep sorrow. Breaking of thy loins - Like a woman in travail.

Daniel 2:44

Because - The saddest news you ever heard is coming.

Daniel 2:46

Furbished - Made clean and bright.

Daniel 2:47

Of my son - To whom God saith, Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, Psalms 2:9. This sword is that rod of iron, which despiseth every tree, and will bear it down.

Daniel 2:49

It - The devouring sword. Upon thy thigh - In token of thy sense of what they must suffer.