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Daniel 2:4
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The Chaldeans speak with great confidence. The king hasn’t asked for an interpretation yet, but neither has he told them the dream, and yet he has summed them all to stand before him and that is surely to have the dream explained. Has he deliberately omitted to tell them what he dreamed? They assume not; no one could expect a dream to be interpreted without knowing what it was about, so they prompt him. They know they have no real power to do what they offer, and yet their trade is all smoke and mirrors and they are confident they will be able to come up with some plausible interpretation if they can only hear what it was he dreamed. They want to appear to be willing to cooperate and give the king an answer, but they are also very happy at this situation because he has been forced to come to them and recognise their skills. But the situation is going to turn out very differently to what they imagine.
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A section of the Book of Daniel (as also a section of Ezra) beginning at the second half of verse 4 of chapter 2 is in Aramaic (called Syriack by the KJV), and does not return to Hebrew until chapter 8 verse 1. This is probably because of the international significance of the material and because it is intended for all – Aramaic being the language of the Chaldean Empire.
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