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Daniel 2:3

The king said to them, "I had a dream that troubles me, and I want to know what the dream means."

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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The king said to them, "I had a dream and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream."
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 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 In the second year that Nebuchadnezzar was king, he had a dream. His spirit was troubled and he could not sleep. 2 Then the king called for the wonder-workers, those who used secret ways, those who learned from stars, to tell the king what he had dreamed. So they came in and stood in front of the king. 3 The king said to them, "I had a dream that troubles me, and I want to know what the dream means." 4 Then those who learn from stars said to the king in the Aramaic language, "O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will tell you what it means." 5 The king answered, saying, "My word is sure. If you do not tell me what my dream was and what it means, you will be torn apart and your houses will be laid waste. 6 But if you tell me the dream and what it means, I will give you gifts and riches and great honor. So tell me the dream and what it means." 7 They answered the king a second time, saying, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will tell you what it means." 8 The king said, "I am sure that you are trying to get more time, because you see that my word is sure. 9 You know that if you do not tell me what I dreamed, there is only one penalty for you. You have agreed among yourselves to keep telling me lies until things change. So tell me the dream. Then I will know that you can tell me what it means." 10 Those who learn from stars answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth who can do this for the king. For no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any wonder-worker or one who learns from stars.

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
On the seventh day God ended 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 honored the seventh day and made it holy, because in it He rested from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 2:4
This is the story of the heavens and the earth when they were made, in the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God made man from the dust of the ground. And He breathed into his nose the breath of life. Man became a living being.
Genesis 2:8
The Lord God planted a garden to the east in Eden. He put the man there whom He had made.
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. Bdellium and 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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