Daniel 4:30

“The king spake and said, etc.] Either within himself, or to his nobles about him; or perhaps to foreigners he had took up with him hither to show the grandeur of the city: is not this great Babylon, that I have built; he might well call it great, for, according to Aristotlef171, it was more like a country than a city; it was, as Plinyf172 says, sixty miles in compass within the walls; and Herodotusf173 affirms it was four hundred and fourscore furlongs round, and such the “greatness” of it, and so beautified, as no other city was he ever knew; (see Gill on “<245158>Jeremiah 51:58”), though the king seems to have gone too far, in ascribing the building of it to himself; at least he was not…”

“Babylon, that I have built--HERODOTUS ascribes the building of Babylon to Semiramis and Nitocris, his informant under the Persian dynasty giving him the Assyrian and Persian account. BEROSUS and ABYDENUS give the Babylonian account, namely, that Nebuchadnezzar added much to the old city, built a splendid palace and city walls. HERODOTUS, the so-called "father of history," does not even mention Nebuchadnezzar. (Nitocris, to whom he attributes the beautifying of Babylon, seems to have been Nebuchadnezzar's wife). Hence infidels have doubted the Scripture account. But the latter is proved by thousands of bricks on the plain, the inscriptions of which have been deciphered, each marked…”

“The king spake and said - The Chaldee, and the Greek of Theodotion and of the Codex Chisianus here is, “the king answered and said:” perhaps he replied to some remark made by his attendants in regard to the magnitude of the city; or perhaps the word “answered” is used, as it often seems to be in the Scriptures, to denote a reply to something passing in the mind that is not uttered; to some question or inquiry that the mind starts. He might merely have been thinking of the magnitude of this city, and he gave response to those thoughts in the language which follows. Is not this great Babylon, that I have built - In regard to the situation and the magnitude of Babylon, and the agency of…”

“4:30 The city of Babylon had magnificent walls covered with royal blue ceramic tile and gold-colored lions and dragons. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were also part of the city’s splendor, as was the dazzling Ishtar Gate. The king recognized all this as a reflection of his own glory and power, not as a gift of the Most High God.”

“Is not: Dan 5:20; Psa 73:8; Pro 16:18; Hab 1:15, Hab 1:16, Hab 2:4, Hab 2:5; Luk 12:19, Luk 12:20, Luk 14:11; Pe1 5:5 great: Gen 10:10, Gen 11:2-9; Rev 16:19, Rev 17:5, Rev 18:10, Rev 18:21 that: Ch1 29:12-14; Ch2 2:5, Ch2 2:6; Isa 10:8-15, Isa 37:24, Isa 37:25; Eze 28:2-5, Eze 29:3 and for: Dan 5:18, Dan 5:19; Est 1:4; Psa 49:20, Psa 104:1, Psa 145:5-12; Co1 10:31; Rev 21:24-26 Daniel 4:31”