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Douay-Rheims Bible

Daniel 2:3

And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw.

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 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.
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 of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of his mind. 2 Then the king commanded to call together the diviners and the wise men, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king his dreams: so they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in mind I know not what I saw. 4 And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof. 5 And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated. 6 but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. 7 They answered again and said: Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation of it. 8 The king answered and said: I know for certain, that you seek to gain time, since you know that the thing is gone from me. 9 If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. 10 Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: There is no man upon earth, that can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth any king, though great and mighty, ask such a thing of any diviner, or wise man, 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
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
Genesis 2:3
And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:10
And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.
Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.
Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.
Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is 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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