Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
cannot—Daniel, being learned in all the lore of the Chaldeans (Daniel 1:4), could authoritatively declare the impossibility of mere man solving the king's difficulty.
soothsayers—from a root, "to cut off"; referring to their cutting the heavens into divisions, and so guessing at men's destinies from the place of the stars at one's birth.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Daniel 2:27:
Daniel 2:28
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