Daniel 2:36

Easy-to-Read Version

"That was your dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Hebrew Names Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

King James Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

English Standard Version
"This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.

New American Standard Bible
"This was the dream; and now we will tell its interpretation before the king.

New Century Version
"That was your dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

Amplified Bible
"This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This is the dreame, and we will declare before the King the interpretation thereof.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This was the dream; now we will tell its interpretation before the king.

Berean Standard Bible
This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Contemporary English Version
That was the dream, and now I'll tell you what it means.

Complete Jewish Bible
"That is what you dreamt, and now we will give the king its interpretation.

Darby Translation
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

George Lamsa Translation
This is the dream; now I will tell its interpretation before the king.

Good News Translation
"This was the dream. Now I will tell Your Majesty what it means.

Lexham English Bible
"This was the dream, and now we will tell its interpretation to the king.

Literal Translation
This is the dream, and we will tell the meaning of it before the king.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the dreame. And now will we shewe before the kynge, what it meaneth.

American Standard Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

Bible in Basic English
This is the dream; and we will make clear to the king the sense of it.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

King James Version (1611)
This is the dreame, and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the King.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is the dreame: and now will we shew before the king what it meaneth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

English Revised Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

World English Bible
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the dreem. Also, thou kyng, we schulen seie bifor thee the interpretyng therof.

Update Bible Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

New English Translation
This was the dream. Now we will set forth before the king its interpretation.

New King James Version
"This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

New Living Translation
"That was the dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

New Life Bible
"This was the dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

New Revised Standard
"This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the dream, and, the interpretation thereof, we will tell before the king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof before thee, O king.

Revised Standard Version
"This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Young's Literal Translation
This [is] the dream, and its interpretation we do tell before the king.

Contextual Overview

³¹ "King, in your dream you saw a large statue in front of you that was very large and shiny. It was very impressive. ³² The head of the statue was made from pure gold. Its chest and the arms were made from silver. The belly and upper part of the legs were made from bronze. ³³ The lower part of the legs was made from iron. Its feet were made partly of iron and partly of clay. ³⁴ While you were looking at the statue, you saw a rock that was cut loose, but not by human hands. Then the rock hit the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. ³⁵ Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold broke to pieces all at the same time. And all the pieces became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summertime. The wind blew them away, and there was nothing left. No one could tell that a statue had ever been there. Then the rock that hit the statue became a very large mountain and filled up the whole earth. ³⁶ "That was your dream. Now we will tell the king what it means. ³⁷ King, you are the most important king. The God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory. ³⁸ He has given you control, and you rule over people and the wild animals and the birds. Wherever they live, God has made you ruler over them all. King Nebuchadnezzar, you are that head of gold on the statue. ³⁹ "Another kingdom will come after you, but it will not be as great as your kingdom. Next, a third kingdom will rule over the earth—that is the bronze part. ⁴⁰ Then there will be a fourth kingdom. That kingdom will be strong like iron. Just as iron breaks things and smashes them to pieces, that fourth kingdom will break all the other kingdoms and smash them to pieces.

Bible Verse Review
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Daniel 2:23, Daniel 2:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:12 - This

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is the dream,.... Which Nebuchadnezzar dreamed, but had forgot, and was now punctually and exactly made known to him; for the truth of which he is appealed unto; for, no doubt, by this account, the whole of his dream, and every circumstance of it, were brought to his mind:

and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king; for though both the dream, and the interpretation of it, were only revealed to Daniel; yet he joins his companions with him, partly because they were now present, and chiefly because they were assisting to him in prayer for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king - Daniel here speaks in his own name, and in the name of his companions. Hence, he says, “we will tell the interpretation.” It was in answer to their united supplications Daniel 2:18, that this meaning of the vision had been made known to him; and it would not only have been a violation of the rules of modesty, but an unjust assumption, if Daniel had claimed the whole credit of the revelation to himself. Though he was the only one who addressed the king, yet he seems to have desired that it might be understood that he was not alone in the honor which God had conferred, and that he wished that his companions should be had in just remembrance. Compare Daniel 2:49.