The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Daniel 2:47
The king answered unto Daniel…
By which it appears that
Daniel interposed and expostulated with the king, and prevented the
oblation to him as a god, and instructed him in the knowledge of the
true God he ought to worship; as the following confession of the king
more clearly shows:
and said, of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods;
the God of
Daniel and his companions, and of the people of the Jews, to whom they
belonged, is above all gods that are named and worshipped by men: this
appeared at this time for the present, though it did not last long, as
the following chapter shows, a most glaring truth; that the God of
Israel was above all his gods, and whom his magicians and people
worshipped, and above all others:
and a Lord of kings;
that rules over them, and disposes of them; sets
them up and pulls them down at his pleasure; and transfers their
kingdoms from one to another, as he learned by the interpretation of
his dream, to which he may in this refer:
and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret;
of
the dream, and the interpretation of it; which he could never have
done, had not his God been a revealer of secrets, and revealed it to
him.
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