18That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
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Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-23)When the king sent for his wise men to tell them his dream, and the interpretation of it (Dan. 2:2), Daniel, it seems, was not summoned to appear among them; the king, though he was highly pleased with him when he examined him, and thought him ten times wiser than the rest of his wise men, yet forgot him when he had most occasion for him; and no wonder, when all was done in a heat, and nothing wit…
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