Daniel 2:3-5

The Voice

Nebuchadnezzar (to his advisors): ³I’ve had a dream that has disturbed me. I know I am not going to have any peace until I know what it means.

Wise Men (in Aramaic):^[a] ⁴Long live the king! We are your servants. Tell us your dream, and we will tell you what it means.

The king has his suspicions about his advisors, so he purposely makes the task more difficult.

Nebuchadnezzar: ⁵My mind is made up; my decree is firm. If you do not tell me what I dreamed and what it means, you will be torn apart, limb from limb, and those houses of yours will be turned into piles of rubble.

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Footnotes

2:4 The language shifts from Hebrew to Aramaic through 7:28. This was the language of commerce and diplomacy in the ancient Near East that became the spoken language of the Jews and displaced Hebrew after their return from Babylon in the late sixth century b.c.