26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. …
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. …
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. …
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-29)Here is, I. The information given to the king, by the queen-mother, concerning Daniel, how fit he was to be consulted in this difficult case. It is supposed that this queen was the widow of Evil-Merodach, and was that famous Nitocris whom Herodotus mentions as a woman of extraordinary prudence. She was not present at the feast, as the king’s wives and concubines were (Dan. 5:2); it was not agreeab…
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