PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Daniel
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 130,682 words · 159 reading sections
Daniel 5:6
Daniel 5:6 Ver. 6. Then the kings countenance changed,.... Or, "his brightness" {l}; his ruddy countenance, his florid looks, his gay airs; all his jollity and mirth, that appeared in his face, were changed into paleness, sadness, and confusion: and his thoughts troubled him; what should be the meaning of this; perha…
245 wordsSECTION 62Daniel 5:7
Daniel 5:7 Ver. 7. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers,.... Or, "with strength" {n}; with a strong voice, as loud as he could; which is expressive of the fright he was in, and of his eagerness and impatience of information; laying aside all decency, and forgetting his r…
384 wordsSECTION 63Daniel 5:8
Daniel 5:8 Ver. 8. Then came in all the king's wise men,.... The whole college of them, the persons before described; over whom, in Nebuchadnezzar's time, Daniel was the chief of the governors, Da 2:48, these came in readily, in hope of getting both riches and honour: but they could not read the writing, nor make kno…
244 wordsSECTION 64Daniel 5:9
Daniel 5:9 Ver. 9. Then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled,.... A second time, and perhaps more than before; since he had conceived some hope that his wise men would have informed him what this writing was, and the meaning of it; but finding that they were nonplussed by it, it gave him still greater uneasiness: and…
183 wordsSECTION 65Daniel 5:10
Daniel 5:10 Ver. 10. Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house,.... Not the wife of Belshazzar, as Porphyry would have it; but rather the queen mother, as Jacchiades, the widow of Evilmerodach his father, whose name was Nitocris; and is spoken of, by Herodotus {q}, as…
273 wordsSECTION 66Daniel 5:11
Daniel 5:11 Ver. 11. There is a man in thy kingdom,.... She does not say in his court; very probably, after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, perhaps in one of the former reigns, he was removed from his offices; for, had he been in one, very likely the queen would have described him by it; and this seems to receive confirm…
320 wordsSECTION 67Daniel 5:12
Daniel 5:12 Ver. 12. Forasmuch as an excellent spirit,.... A superior spirit to all the wise men in Babylon for natural knowledge and political wisdom; and he had yet a more excellent spirit which she knew nothing of, and was no judge of; a spirit of real grace, and true piety and devotion: and knowledge, and underst…
179 wordsSECTION 68Daniel 5:13
Daniel 5:13 Ver. 13. Then was Daniel brought in before the king,.... Proper officers being sent to seek and find him; and having fetched him from his house or apartment where he lived, which seems to have been in the city of Babylon, though not very probably at court as formerly, he was introduced in form into the kin…
205 wordsSECTION 69Daniel 5:14
Daniel 5:14 Ver. 14. I have even heard of thee,.... Very probably he had heard often of him, though he did not think fit to honour him, and use him with that familiarity his grandfather had; or however he had now just heard of him by the queen, whose encomiums of him he recites in her own words: that the spirit of th…
91 wordsSECTION 70Daniel 5:15
Daniel 5:15 Ver. 15. And now the wise men; the astrologers, have been brought in before me,.... For it seems they came not of themselves, or upon hearing his loud cry; but were sent for by him, and came by his orders, and were introduced into his presence by the proper officers: that they should read this writing, an…
4,475 wordsSECTION 71Daniel 6:1
Daniel 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 6 This chapter gives an account of Daniel's being cast into the den of lions, and the causes of it, and the steps leading to it; and also of his wonderful deliverance out of it, and what followed upon that. It first relates how Daniel was made by Darius first president of the princes…
423 wordsSECTION 72Daniel 6:2
Daniel 6:2 Ver. 2. And over these three presidents,.... To whom the hundred and twenty princes were accountable for their conduct, and to whom the people might apply for redress of grievances, if oppressed; perhaps the whole empire was divided into three greater parts, and each part had forty provinces in it, and over…
350 wordsSECTION 73Daniel 6:3
Daniel 6:3 Ver. 3. Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes,.... Not only above the princes, but the presidents, being the first of them, as before: or, "he was victorious above them" {y}; he got more credit and applause than they did, being more exact, diligent, and laborious, faithful, and con…
208 wordsSECTION 74Daniel 6:4
Daniel 6:4 Ver. 4. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom,.... Concerning the management of the affairs of the kingdom, he being prime minister of state; the presidents and princes joined together in this inquiry; the princes, because Daniel was so strict and exac…
195 wordsSECTION 75Daniel 6:5
Daniel 6:5 Ver. 5. Then said these men,.... To one another: we shall not find any occasion against this Daniel; whom they speak of with great disdain and contempt, calling him this Daniel, this fellow, though in the highest post in the kingdom: except we find it against him concerning the law of his God; about his r…
163 wordsSECTION 76Daniel 6:6
Daniel 6:6 Ver. 6. Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king,.... Having consulted the matter, and agreed upon and formed a scheme among themselves, and drawn up a bill or decree in form, ready to be signed by the king, whom they hoped to persuade to it; and for that end they got together, and w…
147 wordsSECTION 77Daniel 6:7
Daniel 6:7 Ver. 7. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains,.... There were but three presidents, and Daniel was one of them, so that these "all" were but "two"; they made the most of it they could; and very probably not all and everyone of the other officers…
503 wordsSECTION 78Daniel 6:8
Daniel 6:8 Ver. 8. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing,.... For they had not only agreed upon it among themselves what to propose, as to the substance of it; but they had drawn it up in writing, ready to be signed, which they urge to have done immediately: that it be not changed, according to the …
155 wordsSECTION 79Daniel 6:9
Daniel 6:9 Ver. 9. Wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree. Moved to it by the number and importunity of his principal men; and chiefly through affectation of deity, which this law gave him; and that he might have an opportunity of ingratiating himself into his new subjects by his munificence and liber…
67 wordsSECTION 80Daniel 6:10
Daniel 6:10 Ver. 10. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed,.... This he knew, either by the relation of others, or by the public proclamation of it through the city; however, he did not know of it till it was signed, or otherwise he might have prevented it by applying to the king, in whom he had great inter…
606 wordsSECTION 81Daniel 6:11
Daniel 6:11 Ver. 11. Then these men assembled,.... Gathered together, and went in a body to Daniel's house; knowing his times of prayer, and where, and in what manner, he used to pray, to see if they could find him at it as aforetime; that so they might have to accuse him with it. Saadiah says, they found a girl, and …
154 wordsSECTION 82Daniel 6:12
Daniel 6:12 Ver. 12. Then they came near,.... They went immediately from Daniel's house to the king's palace, and into the king's presence; which they could do, either by virtue of their offices, or being admitted by the proper officer in waiting: and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; at first they …
226 wordsSECTION 83Daniel 6:13
Daniel 6:13 Ver. 13. Then answered they, and spake before the king,.... Having obtained what they desired, a ratification of the decree, they open the whole affair to him they came about: that Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king: they call him "that Daniel"; by way o…
271 wordsSECTION 84Daniel 6:14
Daniel 6:14 Ver. 14. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself,.... Or "at it" {e}; or "with him"; with Daniel, not so much for what he had done, but that he had not done it with more caution, or more privately, that it might not have been known: or rather, as we render it, "with himse…
299 wordsSECTION 85Daniel 6:15
Daniel 6:15 Ver. 15. Then these men assembled to the king,.... Who had left him for a while to consider of the case; or they departed to consult among themselves about the king's proposals to them; or went home to their own houses to dinner, and returned in a body; they came in a tumultuous way, as the word signifies;…
348 wordsSECTION 86Daniel 6:16
Daniel 6:16 Ver. 16. Then the king commanded,.... Being overawed by his princes and fearing they would conspire against him, and stir up the people to rebel; and consulting his own credit lest he should be thought fickle and inconstant; he ordered the decree to be put in execution against Daniel, and delivered his fav…
393 wordsSECTION 87Daniel 6:17
Daniel 6:17 Ver. 17. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den,.... Not a heap of stones, but a single one, a very large one, sufficient to stop up the mouth of the den, that nothing might enter in at it, or be cast into it: this stone was brought by proper persons, and a sufficient number of them, a…
3,226 wordsSECTION 88Daniel 7:1
Daniel 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 7 This chapter contains Daniel's vision of the four beasts, The time, place, manner, writing, and declaration of the vision, Da 7:1, the rise of the beasts, and the description of them, Da 7:2, the judgment of God upon them, especially the last, and the delivery of universal monarchy…
543 wordsSECTION 89Daniel 7:2
Daniel 7:2 Ver. 2. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night,.... He declared he had had a vision by night, and this was the substance of it: and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea: the east, west, north, and south winds, broke out from each of their quarters, and rushed in upon …
216 wordsSECTION 90Daniel 7:3
Daniel 7:3 Ver. 3. And four great beasts came up from the sea,.... Which are afterwards interpreted of four kings or kingdoms, Da 7:17, which rose up in the world, not at once, but successively, and out of the sea or world, through the commotions and agitations of it; and these are the four monarchies, Babylonian, Per…
155 wordsSECTION 91Daniel 7:4
Daniel 7:4 Ver. 4. The first was like a lion,.... That which rose up first, the kingdom of the Babylonians, as the Syriac version expresses it; or the Assyrian monarchy, founded by Nimrod, increased by the Assyrians, and brought to its height under Nebuchadnezzar by the Babylonians and Chaldeans; this is said to be li…
460 wordsSECTION 92Daniel 7:5
Daniel 7:5 Ver. 5. And, behold, another beast, a second, like to a bear,.... Another monarchy, and which succeeded the former, and rose up upon the ruins of it, the Medo-Persian monarchy; and so the Syriac version prefixes to this verse, by way of explanation, "the kingdom of the Medes'' like to a bear, less generou…
513 wordsSECTION 93Daniel 7:6
Daniel 7:6 Ver. 6. After this I beheld, and, lo another, like a leopard,.... Another beast, another monarchy, a third monarchy succeeding the Persian monarchy, and which rose up on the ruins of that; Darius king of the Persians being beaten by Alexander king of Macedon, who was the instrument of setting up the Grecian…
529 wordsSECTION 94Daniel 7:7
Daniel 7:7 Ver. 7. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,.... Not in another night, as Jarchi; but in the same night, and in the same visions of it; only after he had seen the other three successively, then last of all he saw this fourth beast; and more being said of this than of the rest, s…
496 wordsSECTION 95Daniel 7:8
Daniel 7:8 Ver. 8. I considered the horns,.... The ten horns of the fourth beast; these the prophet particularly looked at, took special notice of them, carefully observed them, their number, form, and situation, and pondered in his mind what should be the meaning of them: and, behold; while he was attentive to these…
1,311 wordsSECTION 96Daniel 7:9
Daniel 7:9 Ver. 9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down,.... On which the governors of the above monarchies sat; and those of the ten kings, signified by the ten horns; and also that of the little horn. The prophet kept looking on the objects before him, till he in his dream, and the visions of the night, saw all …
591 wordsSECTION 97Daniel 7:10
Daniel 7:10 Ver. 10. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him,.... Or, "a river of fire" {s}; which denotes the copious judgments of God, the abundance of them; the full flow of his wrath, and the fierceness of it; and also its rapidity, which cannot be resisted and stopped: thousand thousands ministered …
6,533 wordsSECTION 98Daniel 8:1
Daniel 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 8 This chapter contains the vision of a ram and he goat, and the interpretation of it. It begins with observing the time and place of the vision, Da 8:1, then describes the ram seen; by the place of his situation; by his two horns; and by his pushing several ways with so much force a…
795 wordsSECTION 99Daniel 8:2
Daniel 8:2 Ver. 2. And I saw in a vision,.... The following things: and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; not in reality, but so it seemed to him in the vision; as Ezekiel, when in Babylon, seemed in the visions of God to be at Jerusalem, Eze 8:3. This…
1,436 wordsSECTION 100Daniel 8:3
Daniel 8:3 Ver. 3. Then I lifted up mine eyes,.... To see what was to be seen in this place, where he in the vision was brought; he lifted up the eyes of his understanding, being enlightened by the vision of prophecy, and the eyes of his body, to which objects of corporeal things formed in the fancy were represented: …
451 wordsSECTION 101Daniel 8:4
Daniel 8:4 Ver. 4. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward,.... That is, with his horns, as rams do; these kingdoms using all their power and strength, wealth and riches, in fighting with and subduing nations, and pushing on their conquests in all parts here mentioned; to the west, Babylon, Syria,…
305 wordsSECTION 102Daniel 8:5
Daniel 8:5 Ver. 5. And as I was considering,.... The ram, and the strange things done by him; wondering that a creature of so little strength, comparatively with other beasts, should be able to do such exploits: and thinking with himself what should be the meaning of all this, and what would be the issue of it, behol…
1,031 wordsSECTION 103Daniel 8:6
Daniel 8:6 Ver. 6. And he came to the ram that had two horns,.... Alexander being chosen and made by the states of Greece captain general of all Greece against the Persians, marched from thence with his army, passed the Hellespont, and entered into the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, signified by the ram with two h…
291 wordsSECTION 104Daniel 8:7
Daniel 8:7 Ver. 7. And I saw him come close unto the ram,.... Though the distance between Greece and Persia was very great, and many rivers and mountains in the way, which seemed impassable; Alexander got over them all, and came up to Darius, and fought several battles with him, and entirely defeated him, though great…
1,189 wordsSECTION 105Daniel 8:8
Daniel 8:8 Ver. 8. Therefore the he goat waxed very great,.... The Grecian monarchy, under Alexander, became very powerful, and was very extensive; he not only conquered the Persian empire, but also the Indies, yea, the whole world, as he imagined; and indeed he did bring into subjection to him the greatest part of th…
509 wordsSECTION 106Daniel 8:9
Daniel 8:9 Ver. 9. And out of one of them came forth a little horn,.... Meaning not the kingdom of Titus Vespasian, as Jarchi; nor the kingdom of the Turks, as Saadiah; but the kingdom of Antiochia, as Aben Ezra and Jacchiades; or rather Antiochus Epiphanes, who sprung from the kingdom of the Seleucidae in Syria, or f…
635 wordsSECTION 107Daniel 8:10
Daniel 8:10 Ver. 10. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven,.... The people of the Jews, the army of the living God, the church militant, among whom were many of the citizens of heaven, whose names are written there; such was the insolence of this king, as to molest and disturb them: and it cast down some of …
183 wordsSECTION 108Daniel 8:11
Daniel 8:11 Ver. 11. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince host,.... Either the high priest Onias, whom he disposed of his office, and put Jason a wicked man into it; or Judas Maccabeus, the prince of the Jewish nation; or rather, as Jacchiades, God himself, the Lord God of Israel, the King, Prince, Governor, a…
391 wordsSECTION 109Daniel 8:12
Daniel 8:12 Ver 12. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression,.... Which some interpret of a garrison of soldiers placed by Antiochus, through his sin and wickedness, to hinder the oblation of the daily sacrifice, as Grotius: others, of a host of apostates among the Jews, who adv…
461 wordsSECTION 110Daniel 8:13
Daniel 8:13 Ver. 13. Then I heard one saint speaking,.... An angel, either a created angel, pure and holy in his nature, as Gabriel; or the uncreated Angel Jesus Christ, the Word of God; what he was speaking of is not said; perhaps Daniel did not hear what he said, though he heard him speaking, or perceived that he sp…
5,252 wordsSECTION 111Daniel 9:1
Daniel 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 9 This chapter contains a prayer of Daniel, and the answer to it. The time, occasion, and manner of his prayer, or circumstances of it, are observed, Da 9:1, the parts of it, an address unto God, under various suitable epithets and characters, Da 9:4 confession of sin, of his own, of…
507 wordsSECTION 112Daniel 9:2
Daniel 9:2 Ver. 2. In the first year of his reign,.... Which was also the first of Cyrus, who was partner with him in the kingdom; in which year ended the seventy years' captivity of the Jews, and proclamation was made to have their liberty to go up to Jerusalem, and build the temple, Ezr 1:1, reckoning from the third…
441 wordsSECTION 113Daniel 9:3
Daniel 9:3 Ver. 3. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications,.... He set apart some time on purpose for this service, distinct from his usual stated times of prayer, as well as from his civil business and employment; and he not only set his face toward Jerusalem, as he used to do, Da 6:1…
334 wordsSECTION 114Daniel 9:4
Daniel 9:4 Ver. 4. And I prayed unto the Lord my God,.... Not to idols, nor to angels or saints departed; but to the Lord God of heaven and earth, who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, &c.: a God hearing and answering prayer; and to whom he directed his prayer, not only as the God of nature and providence, but a…
369 wordsSECTION 115Daniel 9:5
Daniel 9:5 Ver. 5. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,.... Some think there is a gradation in these words; that they had committed some sins through error and ignorance; others through infirmity and obliquity, or in the perverseness of their spirits, and the crookedn…
222 wordsSECTION 116Daniel 9:6
Daniel 9:6 Ver. 6. Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets,.... To their explanations of the laws and judgments of God; to their admonitions, reproofs, and counsels; these they did not attentively listen to, nor give credit to them, nor yield obedience to them; but despised and rejected them, though t…
308 wordsSECTION 117Daniel 9:7
Daniel 9:7 Ver. 7. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee,.... It is essential to him, it is his nature, and appears in all his works; he is perfectly pure, holy, and righteous; he is just, and without iniquity; and there is no unrighteousness in him, nor any to be charged upon him, on account of anything done by h…
463 wordsSECTION 118Daniel 9:8
Daniel 9:8 Ver. 8. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face,.... Which is repeated, to show how much the mind of the prophet was affected with it, and to fix a sense of it in the minds of others; as well as to suggest that he wanted words fully to express that shame that everyone ought to take to themselves; and also…
172 wordsSECTION 119Daniel 9:9
Daniel 9:9 Ver. 9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses,.... Mercy is his nature, and what he delights in; it is abundant, and he is plenteous in it the fountain of mercy is with him, and numerous are the streams which flow from it, called "the multitude of his tender mercies"; all temporal favours spr…
249 wordsSECTION 120Daniel 9:10
Daniel 9:10 Ver. 10. Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God,.... Speaking in the law, and by his prophets; for what was spoken there, and by them, should have been considered, not as the word of man, but as the word of God, and should have been attended to and obeyed; for despising that and them was inte…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.