Daniel 2:10

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Para Kasdim itu menjawab raja: "Tidak ada seorangpun di muka bumi yang dapat memberitahukan apa yang diminta tuanku raja! Dan tidak pernah seorang raja, bagaimanapun agungnya dan besar kuasanya, telah meminta hal sedemikian dari seorang berilmu atau seorang ahli jampi atau seorang Kasdim.

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Para Kasdim itu menjawab raja: "Tidak ada seorangpun di muka bumi yang dapat memberitahukan apa yang diminta tuanku raja! Dan tidak pernah seorang raja, bagaimanapun agungnya dan besar kuasanya, telah meminta hal sedemikian dari seorang berilmu atau seorang ahli jampi atau seorang Kasdim.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sahut orang Kasdim itu di hadapan hadirat baginda, sembahnya: Bahwa di atas seluruh muka bumi seorangpun tiada yang dapat memaklumkan perkara yang tuanku titahkan; maka sebab itu tiada pernah seorang raja, jikalau besar dan berkuasa sekalipun, yang menitahkan perkara sebagainya kepada barang seorang sastrawan atau ahlulnujum atau Kasdim.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Exodus 8:18 - they could Exodus 8:19 - This is Leviticus 19:26 - use Isaiah 41:28 - I beheld Isaiah 44:25 - maketh Daniel 2:27 - cannot

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Chaldeans answered before the King, and said,.... As follows, in order to appease his wrath, and cool his resentment, and bring him to reason:

there is not a man upon the earth can show the king's matter; or, "upon the dry land" g: upon the continent, throughout the whole world, in any country whatever; not one single man can be found, be he ever so wise and learned, that can show the king what he requires; and yet Daniel afterwards did; and so it appears, by this confession, that he was greater than they, or any other of the same profession with them: this is one argument they use to convince the king of the unreasonableness of his demand; it being such that no man on earth was equal to; another follows:

therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler; there neither is, nor never was, any potentate or prince, be who he will; whether, as Jacchiades distinguishes them, a "king" over many provinces, whose empire is very large; or "lord" over many cities; or "ruler" over many villages belonging to one city; in short, no man of power and authority, whether supreme or subordinate:

that asked things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean; never was such a thing required of any before; no instance, they suggest, could be produced in ancient history, or in the present age, in any kingdom or court under the heavens, of such a request being made; or that anything of this kind was ever insisted upon; and therefore hoped the king would not insist upon it; and which no doubt was true: Pharaoh required of his wise men to tell him the interpretation of his dream, but not the dream itself.

g על יבשתא "super aridam", Pagninus, Montanus; "super arida", Cocceius; "super arido", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said - Perhaps the “Chaldeans” answered because they were the highest in favor, and were those in whom most confidence was usually reposed in such matters. See the notes at Daniel 2:2. On such an occasion, those would be likely to be put forward to announce their inability to do this who would be supposed to be able to interpret the dream, if any could, and on whom most reliance was usually placed.

There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter - Chaldee, על־יבשׁתא ‛al-yabesh^ethâ' - “upon the dry ground.” Compare Genesis 1:10. The meaning is, that the thing was utterly beyond the power of man. It was what none who practiced the arts of divining laid claim to. They doubtless supposed that as great proficients in that art as the world could produce might be found among the wise men assembled at the court of Babylon, and if they failed, they inferred that all others would fail. This was, therefore, a decided confession of their inability in the matter; but they meant to break the force of that mortifying confession, and perhaps to appease the wrath of the king, by affirming that the thing was wholly beyond the human powers, and that no one could be expected to do what was demanded.

Therefore” there is “no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things - No one has ever made a similar demand. The matter is so clear, the incompetency of man to make such a disclosure is so manifest, that no potentate of any rank ever made such a request. They designed, undoubtedly, to convince the king that the request was so unreasonable that he would not insist on it. They were urgent, for their life depended on it, and they apprehended that they had justice on their side.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 2:10. There is not a man upon the earth — The thing is utterly impossible to man. This was their decision: and when Daniel gave the dream, with its interpretation, they knew that the spirit of the holy gods was in him. So, even according to their own theology, he was immeasurably greater than the wisest in Babylon or in the world.