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19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel ain a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven.  
20 Daniel answered and said:
a“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever,
bFor wisdom and might are His. 
21 And He changes athe times and the seasons;
bHe removes kings and raises up kings;
cHe gives wisdom to the wise
And knowledge to those who have understanding. 
22 aHe reveals deep and secret things;
bHe knows what is in the darkness,
And clight dwells with Him. 
23 “I thank You and praise You,
O God of my fathers;
You have given me wisdom and might,
And have now made known to me what we aasked of You,
For You have made known to us the king’s1 demand.”  

Daniel Explains the Dream

24 Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; take me before the king, and I will tell the king the interpretation.”
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Daniel 2:21

changeth . . . times . . . seasons—"He herein gives a general preparatory intimation, that the dream of Nebuchadnezzar is concerning the changes and successions of kingdoms" [JEROME]. The "times" are the phases and periods of duration of empires (compare Daniel 7:25; I Chronicles 12:32; I Chronicles 29:30); the "seasons" the fitting times for their culmination, decline, and fall (Ecclesiastes 3:1; Acts 1:7; I Thessalonians 5:1). The vicissitudes of states, with their times and seasons, are not regulated by chance or fate, as the heathen thought, but by God.

removed kings— (Job 12:18; Psalms 75:6-7; Jeremiah 27:5; compare I Samuel 2:7-8).

giveth wisdom— (I Kings 3:9-12; James 1:5).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Daniel 2:21:

Job 12:18
Job 34:24
Isaiah 40:23
Jeremiah 41:2
Daniel 7:25

 

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