Daniel 2:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

Daniel 2:8 —

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Cross-References

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Ephesians 5:16
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

We meet with a great difficulty in the date of this story; it is said to be in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 2:1. Now Daniel was carried to Babylon in his first year, and, it should seem, he was three years under tutors and governors before he was presented to the king, Dan. 1:5. How then could this happen in the second year? Perhaps, though three years were appointed for th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. gain ... time--literally, “buy.” Compare Ep 5:16; Col 4:5, where the sense is somewhat different. the thing is gone from me--(See on Da 2:5).