New American Standard Bible 1995

Daniel 4:5-9

5I saw a 1dream and it made me fearful; and these fantasies as I lay on my bed and the 2visions 3in my mind kept alarming me. 6So I gave orders to 4bring into my presence all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 7Then the 5 6magicians, the conjurers, the 7Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream 8to them, but they could not make its 9interpretation known to me. 8But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is 10Belteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is 11 12a spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream 13to him, saying, 9‘O Belteshazzar, 14chief of the magicians, since I know that 15a spirit of the holy gods is in you and 16no mystery baffles you, 17tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.

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Notes

1. Daniel 4:5 Dan 2:3 ↩
2. Daniel 4:5 Dan 2:1, 28; 4:10, 13 ↩
3. Daniel 4:5 Lit of my head ↩
4. Daniel 4:6 Gen 41:8; Dan 2:2 ↩
5. Daniel 4:7 Or soothsayer priests, and so throughout the ch ↩
6. Daniel 4:7 Gen 41:8; Dan 2:10, 27; 5:7 ↩
7. Daniel 4:7 Or master astrologers ↩
8. Daniel 4:7 Lit before ↩
9. Daniel 4:7 Is 44:25; Jer 27:9, 10; Dan 2:7 ↩
10. Daniel 4:8 Dan 1:7; 2:26; 5:12 ↩
11. Daniel 4:8 Or possibly the Spirit of the holy God, and so throughout the ch ↩
12. Daniel 4:8 Dan 4:9, 18; 5:11, 14 ↩
13. Daniel 4:8 Lit before ↩
14. Daniel 4:9 Dan 1:20; 2:48; 5:11 ↩
15. Daniel 4:9 Gen 41:38; Dan 4:8 ↩
16. Daniel 4:9 Ezek 28:3; Dan 2:47 ↩
17. Daniel 4:9 Gen 41:15; Dan 2:4, 5 ↩

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