Daniel 2:5
The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
Note cut…: Chaldee, made pieces
The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- ye shall
- This was unreasonable, arbitrary, and tyrannical in the extreme; but, in the course of God's providence, it was overruled to serve the most important purpose.
- Daniel 3:29; 1 Samuel 15:33; Psalm 50:22; Psalm 58:7
- cut in pieces
- Chal. made pieces. made.
- Deuteronomy 13:16; Joshua 6:26; 2 Kings 10:27; Ezra 6:11