Daniel 2:1–7

The King’s Forgotten Dream

1 Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar 1 ahad dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his bsleep 2left him.

2 Then the king 1gave orders to call in the 2 amagicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the 3Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

3 The king said to them, “I 1 ahad a dream and my spirit 2is anxious to 3understand the dream.”

4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in 1 aAramaic: “bO king, live forever! cTell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

5 The king replied to the Chaldeans, “1The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be 2 atorn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.

6 “But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me agifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.”

7 They answered a second time and said, “Let the king atell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

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1	Lit dreamed dreams
a	Ge 40:5–8 Ge 41:1 Ge 41:8 Job 33:15–17 Da 2:3 Da 4:5
b	Es 6:1 Da 6:18
2	Lit was gone upon him
1	Lit said to call
2	Or soothsayer priests
a	Ge 41:8 Ex 7:11 Is 47:12 Is 47:13 Da 1:20 Da 2:10 Da 2:27 Da 4:6 Da 5:7
3	Or master astrologers, and so throughout the ch
1	Lit dreamed
a	Ge 40:8 Ge 41:15 Da 4:5
2	Lit was troubled
3	Lit know
1	The text is in Aramaic from here through 7:28
a	Ezr 4:7 Is 36:11
b	Da 3:9 Da 5:10
c	Da 2:7
1	Another reading is The word has gone from me
2	Lit made into limbs
a	Ezr 6:11 Da 2:12 Da 3:29
a	Da 2:48 Da 5:7 Da 5:16 Da 5:29
a	Da 2:4