Daniel 2:36

Bible in Basic English

This is the dream; and we will make clear to the king the sense of it.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Hebrew Names Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

King James Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

English Standard Version
"This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.

New American Standard Bible
"This was the dream; and now we will tell its interpretation before the king.

New Century Version
"That was your dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

Amplified Bible
"This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This is the dreame, and we will declare before the King the interpretation thereof.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This was the dream; now we will tell its interpretation before the king.

Berean Standard Bible
This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Contemporary English Version
That was the dream, and now I'll tell you what it means.

Complete Jewish Bible
"That is what you dreamt, and now we will give the king its interpretation.

Darby Translation
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

Easy-to-Read Version
"That was your dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

George Lamsa Translation
This is the dream; now I will tell its interpretation before the king.

Good News Translation
"This was the dream. Now I will tell Your Majesty what it means.

Lexham English Bible
"This was the dream, and now we will tell its interpretation to the king.

Literal Translation
This is the dream, and we will tell the meaning of it before the king.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the dreame. And now will we shewe before the kynge, what it meaneth.

American Standard Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

King James Version (1611)
This is the dreame, and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the King.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is the dreame: and now will we shew before the king what it meaneth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

English Revised Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

World English Bible
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the dreem. Also, thou kyng, we schulen seie bifor thee the interpretyng therof.

Update Bible Version
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

New English Translation
This was the dream. Now we will set forth before the king its interpretation.

New King James Version
"This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

New Living Translation
"That was the dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

New Life Bible
"This was the dream. Now we will tell the king what it means.

New Revised Standard
"This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the dream, and, the interpretation thereof, we will tell before the king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof before thee, O king.

Revised Standard Version
"This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Young's Literal Translation
This [is] the dream, and its interpretation we do tell before the king.

Contextual Overview

³¹ You, O King, were looking, and a great image was there. This image, which was very great, and whose glory was very bright, was placed before you: its form sent fear into the heart. ³² As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass, ³³ Its legs of iron, its feet were in part of iron and in part of potter's earth. ³⁴ While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. ³⁵ Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth. ³⁶ This is the dream; and we will make clear to the king the sense of it. ³⁷ You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory, ³⁸ Wherever the children of men are living; into whose hands he has given the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven, and has made you ruler over them all, you are the head of gold. ³⁹ And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth. ⁴⁰ And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is the dream,.... Which Nebuchadnezzar dreamed, but had forgot, and was now punctually and exactly made known to him; for the truth of which he is appealed unto; for, no doubt, by this account, the whole of his dream, and every circumstance of it, were brought to his mind:

and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king; for though both the dream, and the interpretation of it, were only revealed to Daniel; yet he joins his companions with him, partly because they were now present, and chiefly because they were assisting to him in prayer for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king - Daniel here speaks in his own name, and in the name of his companions. Hence, he says, “we will tell the interpretation.” It was in answer to their united supplications Daniel 2:18, that this meaning of the vision had been made known to him; and it would not only have been a violation of the rules of modesty, but an unjust assumption, if Daniel had claimed the whole credit of the revelation to himself. Though he was the only one who addressed the king, yet he seems to have desired that it might be understood that he was not alone in the honor which God had conferred, and that he wished that his companions should be had in just remembrance. Compare Daniel 2:49.