Daniel 5:21

Schlachter Bibel

man verstieß ihn von den Menschenkindern, und sein Herz ward den Tieren gleich; er wohnte bei den Wildeseln, und man fütterte ihn mit Gras wie einen Ochsen, und sein Leib ward vom Tau des Himmels benetzt, bis er erkannte, daß Gott, der Allerhöchste, über das Königtum der Menschen regiert und den darüber bestellt, der ihm gefällt.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
und ward verstoßen von den Leuten hinweg, und sein Herz ward gleich den Tieren, und er mußte bei dem Wild laufen und fraß Gras wie Ochsen, und sein Leib lag unterm Tau des Himmels, und er ward naß, bis daß er lernte, daß Gott der Höchste Gewalt hat über der Menschen Königreiche und gibt sie, wem er will.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he was driven: Daniel 4:25, Daniel 4:32, Daniel 4:33, Job 30:3-7

his heart was made like: or, he made his heart equal, etc. till. Daniel 4:17, Daniel 4:25, Daniel 4:32, Daniel 4:35, Daniel 4:37, Exodus 9:14-16, Psalms 83:17, Psalms 83:18, Ezekiel 17:24

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:17 - thou shalt 1 Kings 3:7 - thou hast 2 Kings 9:6 - I have anointed Job 18:18 - chased Job 39:5 - the wild Proverbs 29:23 - man's Daniel 4:23 - and let his Hosea 2:7 - for Micah 6:6 - the high Matthew 5:3 - the poor John 12:10 - General John 19:11 - Thou Acts 16:17 - the most Galatians 6:14 - that I Hebrews 7:1 - the most

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he was driven from the sons of men,.... From their company, and from conversation with them; his madness was of that kind, that he chose rather to be with beasts than men; it drove him from men, and made him more desirous of being with beasts; or it was so intolerable, that his family, friends, and courtiers, were obliged to remove him from them, from his palace and court, and from all conversation with men, which he was incapable of through his frenzy and madness:

and his heart was made like the beasts; to have the same affections and desires as they have; to crave the same things they did, and like what they liked, and live as they lived: or, "he put his heart with the beasts" x; either Nebuchadnezzar himself chose to be with them, and delighted in a beastly life; or God did it; he put such a heart into him, or so disposed it, that it became brutish; though to read the words impersonally, as before, seems best:

and his dwelling was with the wild asses; in a wilderness or field; or rather in some enclosed place, in one of his parks, where such creatures were kept for hunting; among these he dwelt, as being like them, having lost the use of his reason, and so was become stupid and sottish as they:

and they fed him with grass like oxen; as they are fed, and which he chose above any other food:

and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; being without clothes, and lying naked in some open place all night:

till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will: till he came to his senses, and was brought to see and own the sovereign dominion of the one, true, and living God, over all the kingdoms of the earth, and that they are at his dispose; Daniel 4:32.

x ולבבה עם חיותא שוי "cor ejus cum bestiis posuit", Vatablus, Calvin; "animum suum cum bestis posuit", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he was driven ... - See this fully explained in Daniel 4:25-33.