12The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 4-18)Nebuchadnezzar, before he relates the judgments of God that had been wrought upon him for his pride, gives an account of the fair warning he had of them before they came, a due regard to which might have prevented them. But he was told of them , and of the issue of them, before they came to pass, that, when they did come to pass , by comparing them with the prediction of them, he might see, and sa...
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