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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Daniel 2:3

The king said to them, "I had a dream and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Magician;   Rulers;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Times of the Gentiles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dreams;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dream;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Heres;   Hushim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dream (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
he said to them, “I have had a dream and am anxious to understand it.”
Hebrew Names Version
The king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
King James Version
And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
English Standard Version
And the king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream."
New American Standard Bible
The king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream."
New Century Version
Then the king said to them, "I had a dream that bothers me, and I want to know what it means."
Amplified Bible
The king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled and anxious to know the [content and meaning of the] dream."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the King sayde vnto them, I haue dreamed a dreame, and my spirite was troubled to knowe the dreame.
Berean Standard Bible
he said to them, "I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to understand it."
Contemporary English Version
and said, "I am disturbed by a dream that I don't understand, and I want you to explain it."
Complete Jewish Bible
The king said to them, "I had a dream which will keep troubling my spirit until I know what it means."
Darby Translation
And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the king said to them, "I had a dream that bothers me. I want to know what it means."
George Lamsa Translation
And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Good News Translation
he said to them, "I'm worried about a dream I've had. I want to know what it means."
Lexham English Bible
And the king said to them, "I have had a dream and my spirit is anxious to know the dream."
Literal Translation
And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the kynge sayde vnto them: I haue dreamed a dreame, & my sprete was so troubled therwith, yt I haue clene forgotten, what I dreamed.
American Standard Version
And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Bible in Basic English
And the king said to them, I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled by the desire to have the dream made clear to me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the king said unto them: 'I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.'
King James Version (1611)
And the King said vnto them, I haue dreamed a dreame, and my spirit was troubled to know the dreame.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king sayde vnto them: I haue dreamed a dreame, and my spirite was troubled to knowe the dreame.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king said to them, I have dreamed, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
English Revised Version
And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
World English Bible
The king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the king seide to hem, Y siy a dreem, and Y am schent in mynde, and Y knowe not what Y siy.
Update Bible Version
And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
New English Translation
The king told them, "I have had a dream, and I am anxious to understand the dream."
New King James Version
And the king said to them, "I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to know the dream."
New Living Translation
he said, "I have had a dream that deeply troubles me, and I must know what it means."
New Life Bible
The king said to them, "I had a dream that troubles me, and I want to know what the dream means."
New Revised Standard
he said to them, "I have had such a dream that my spirit is troubled by the desire to understand it."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the king, said to them, A dream, have I dreamed, - and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw.
Revised Standard Version
And the king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream."
Young's Literal Translation
and the king saith to them, `A dream I have dreamed, and moved is my spirit to know the dream.'

Contextual Overview

1 Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. 2 Then the king gave orders to call in the magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. 3 The king said to them, "I had a dream and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream."4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: "O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation." 5 The king replied to the Chaldeans, "The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap. 6 "But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation." 7 They answered a second time and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation." 8 The king replied, "I know for certain that you are bargaining for time, inasmuch as you have seen that the command from me is firm, 9 that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation." 10 The Chaldeans answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth who could declare the matter for the king, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any magician, conjurer or Chaldean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Daniel 2:1, Genesis 40:8, Genesis 41:15

Reciprocal: Daniel 2:26 - Art Daniel 4:9 - no secret Daniel 5:15 - General Daniel 7:15 - the visions

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 2:3
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Genesis 2:8
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
Genesis 2:10
Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
Genesis 2:13
The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream,.... What before is called dreams is here expressed in the singular, a dream; for it was but one dream, though it contained in it various things; this the king could remember, that he had a dream; for it had left some impression on his mind, though he could not call to mind what it was about. Aben Ezra makes mention of one of their Gaons or Rabbins, that affirmed that Nebuchadnezzar knew his dream, but was willing to try the wise men; but, as he observes, he could not surely believe the words of Daniel:

and my spirit was troubled to know the dream; both that, and the meaning of it; he says nothing as yet about the interpretation of it; concluding that, if they could tell him the dream, they could explain it to him; or then it would be time enough to inquire after that.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream - That is, clearly, to know all about it; to recollect distinctly what it was, and to understand what it meant. He was agitated by so remarkable a dream; he probably had, as Jerome remarks, a shadowy and floating impression of what the dream was - such as we often have of a dream that has agitated out minds, but of which we cannot recal the distinct and full image; and he desired to recal that distinctly, and to know exactly what it meant. See Daniel 2:1.


 
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