Daily Verse Daniel 4:11-12 | Daily verse by Faithlife

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4:11 reached to heaven Suggestive of the incomparable might of the tree. It was taller and stronger than all others.

John D. Barry et al., Faithlife Study Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012, 2016), Da 4:11.

4:10–12 The king’s dream was of a tree whose top reached to the sky. A similar expression was used in Gn 11:4 for the tower of the city of Babylon, the top of which was to reach “the sky.” The tree provided food and shelter for all the creatures of the earth.

Michael Rydelnik, “Daniel,” in CSB Study Bible: Notes, ed. Edwin A. Blum and Trevin Wax (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), 1331.

10. tree—So the Assyrian is compared to a “cedar” (Ez 31:3; compare Ez 17:24).

in the midst of the earth—denoting its conspicuous position as the center whence the imperial authority radiated in all directions.


Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, vol. 1 (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 628.

4:9–12. Nebuchadnezzar referred to Daniel as chief of the magicians, not because he was in authority over the wise men but because he was wiser than all of them, capable of understanding and interpreting dreams. The king implored Daniel to interpret his dream for him. Nebuchadnezzar’s dream was a simple one. He was perplexed not by what he had seen, but by his inability to understand its meaning.
Previously Nebuchadnezzar had traveled to Lebanon to watch the felling of the great cedars to provide timber for his construction projects in Babylon. So he had witnessed the felling of mighty trees. The tree he saw in his dream was significant because of its size (vv. 10–11), its beauty (v. 12), and its fruit (v. 12). It provided food and shelter for all the animals and birds who lived under it or in it.


J. Dwight Pentecost, “Daniel,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 1341–1342.