John Gill's Exposition on Daniel 5:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I have heard of thee, etc.] That is, by the queen, which he repeats for the sake of observing what she had said of him, and which gave him encouragement to send for him: that thou canst make interpretations; of dreams, and of things hard to be understood: and dissolve doubts; untie knots, solve difficulties, and answer hard and intricate questions: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof; that which is upon the wall before thee, and which the wise men of Babylon could not: thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom; the same reward he had proposed to the astrologers and soothsayers, (<270507>Daniel 5:7) but what was no temptation or motive to Daniel, as appears by what follows:

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