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King James Version

Daniel 2:36

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Clay;   Gold;   Persia;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Times of the Gentiles;   The Topic Concordance - Empires/world Powers;   Government;   Nations;   Surety;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Metals;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dream;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aram;   Dream;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Allegory;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   Image, Nebuchadnezzar's;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Heres;   Hushim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Iron;   Persia, Persians;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abednego;   Babylon;  

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.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
"That was your dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.
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 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. 37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. 39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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.


 
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