Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
This decree promulgated throughout the vast empire of Nebuchadnezzar must have tended much to keep the Jews from idolatry in the captivity and thenceforth (Psalms 76:10).
Punished with insanity for his haughtiness, he sinks to the level of the beasts (illustrating Psalms 49:6, Psalms 49:12). The opposition between bestial and human life, set forth here, is a key to interpret the symbolism in the seventh chapter concerning the beasts and the Son of man. After his conquests, and his building in fifteen days a new palace, according to the heathen historian, ABYDENUS (268 BC), whose account confirms Daniel, he ascended upon his palace roof (Daniel 4:29, Margin), whence he could see the surrounding city which he had built, and seized by some deity, he predicted the Persian conquest of Babylon, adding a prayer that the Persian leader might on his return be borne where there is no path of men, and where the wild beasts graze (language evidently derived by tradition from Daniel 4:32-33, though the application is different). In his insanity, his excited mind would naturally think of the coming conquest of Babylon by the Medo-Persians, already foretold to him in the second chapter.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Daniel 3:29:
Daniel 6:26
Hebrews 11:34
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