Daniel 2:8

"They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”"

Key Reflection

In this verse, the Chaldeans are making a reasonable request to the king, emphasizing that they need the dream's content to provide its meaning. This interaction highlights the humility of the wise men, acknowledging their inability to divine without additional information, and sets up the context for Daniel's later assertion of wisdom and interpretation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time -Margin, “buy.” The Chaldee wordזבניןzâbenı̂yn(fromזבןzeban) means, to get for oneself, buy, gain, procure. Greek,ἐξαγοράζετεexagorazete- “that ye redeem time;” and so the Vulgate -quod tempus redimitis. The idea is, that they saw that they could not comply with his requisition, and that their asking himDaniel 2:7to state the dream was only a pretext for delay, in the hope that in the interval some device might be hit on by them to appease him, or to avert his threatened indignation.

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