9Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)This vision is dated in the third year of Cyrus , that is, of his reign after the conquest of Babylon, his third year since Daniel became acquainted with him and a subject to him. Here is, I. A general idea of this prophecy (Dan. 10:1): The thing was true ; every word of God is so; it was true that Daniel had such a vision, and that such and such things were said. This he solemnly attests upon the…
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