Daniel 4:34

“And at the end of the days, etc.] Of the time fixed in the dream; that is, at the end of seven years, as Jarchi rightly interprets it; this according to Bishop Usherf181, Dean Prideauxf182, and Mr. Whistonf183, was in the year of the world 3442 A.M., and before Christ 563, in the forty second year of his reign; after which he lived but one year, reigning from the death of his father forty three years, and according to the Jewish accounts forty five; they reckoning from the beginning of his partnership in the kingdom with his father, and his first coming with an army into Syria. I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven: for, during the seven years he ate grass like an ox, his eyes…”

“lifted up mine eyes unto heaven--whence the "voice" had issued (Dan 4:31) at the beginning of his visitation. Sudden mental derangement often has the effect of annihilating the whole interval, so that, when reason returns, the patient remembers only the event that immediately preceded his insanity. Nebuchadnezzar's looking up towards heaven was the first symptom of his "understanding" having "returned." Before, like the beasts, his eyes had been downward to the earth. Now, like Jonah's (Jon 2:1-2, Jon 2:4) out of the fish's belly, they are lifted up to heaven in prayer. He turns to Him that smiteth him (Isa 9:13), with the faint glimmer of reason left to him, and owns God's justice in…”

“And at the end of the days - That is, the time designated; to wit, the “seven times” that were to pass over him. I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven - Probably the first thing that indicated returning reason. It would not be unnatural, on the supposition that he was deprived of reason at the very instant that a voice seemed to speak to him from heaven, and that he continued wholly insane or idiotic during the long interval of seven years, that the first indication of returning reason would be his looking up to the place from where that voice seemed to come, as if it were still speaking to him. In some forms of mental derangement, when it comes suddenly upon a man, the effect is…”

“Mine understanding returned - God shined upon his soul, and gave him understanding to consider his sad state, and the causes of it. And honoured him - By prayer and praise, adoring the justice and mercy of God, giving God the glory of his sovereignty and unchangeableness. Daniel 4:35”

“4:34-37 Nebuchadnezzar now acknowledged and submitted to the higher authority of the Most High, the King of heaven.”

“am 3441, bc 563 at the end: Dan 4:16, Dan 4:26, Dan 4:32 lifted: Psa 121:1, Psa 123:1, Psa 130:1, Psa 130:2; Jon 2:2-4; Luk 18:13 I blessed: Job 1:21; Psa 50:14, Psa 103:1-4, Psa 107:8, Psa 107:15, Psa 107:22, Psa 107:31; Isa 24:15; Lam 3:19-23 the most High: Dan 4:17, Dan 4:32; Psa 7:17, Psa 9:2, Psa 92:1; Lam 3:38 him: Dan 12:7; Psa 90:2, Psa 102:24, Psa 146:10; Jer 10:10; Joh 5:26; Ti1 1:17, Ti1 6:16; Rev 4:10, Rev 10:6 whose: Dan 4:3, Dan 2:44, Dan 7:14; Psa 10:16, Psa 145:13; Isa 9:6, Isa 9:7; Jer 10:10; Mic 4:7; Luk 1:33; Rev 11:15 is from: Psa 90:1 Daniel 4:35”

“(4:31-34) Nebuchadnezzar's recovery, his restoration to his kingdom, and his thankful recognition of the Lord in heaven. The second part of the prophecy was also fulfilled. "At the end of the days," i.e., after the expiry of the seven times, Nebuchadnezzar lifted up his eyes to heaven, - the first sign of the return of human consciousness, from which, however, we are not to conclude, with Hitzig, that before this, in his madness, he went on all-fours like an ox. Nebuchadnezzar means in these words only to say that his first thought was a look to heaven, whence help came to him; cf. Psa 123:1. Then his understanding immediately returned to him. The first thought he entertained was to thank…”