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Daniel 4:33

King James Version (KJV)

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Daniel 4:33

Verse 33 of 37

Scripture focus

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ [feathers], and his nails like birds’ [claws].

Daniel 4:33 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Daniel 4:33

Theological / Devotional

Fulfilled. Many commentators have identified Nebuchadnezzar’s malady as a form of insanity in which men think themselves animals and imitate the beasts’ manner of life.

An ancient example of such mental maladies has been attested. An unpublished cuneiform tablet in the British Museum mentions a man who ate grass like a cow (F. M. Th. de Liagre Bohl, Opera Minora [1953], p. 527). It is not necessary to identify Nebuchadnezzar’s malady precisely or to equate it with anything known to medical science today. The experience may have been unique. The narrative is brief, and a precise diagnosis on such meager information is invalid.

Eagles' feather. The word “feathers” is supplied. Hair, when unkempt and long exposed to the influences of rough weather and to the rays of the sun, becomes hard and unruly.

By SdaBc