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Daniel 4:12 KJV
Daniel · chapter 4 · verse 12
The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.Daniel 4:12 · King James Version
Daniel 4:12 in context
10Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
11The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
12The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
13I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
14He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- leavesʻŏphîya twigH6074 →
- beastschêyvâʼan animalH2423 →
- shadowṭᵉlalto cover with shadeH2927 →
- heavenshâmayin{the sky (as aloftH8065 →
- fruitʼêb{a green plant}H4 →
- fieldbara fieldH1251 →
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Nebuchadnezzar, before he relates the judgments of God that had been wrought upon him for his pride, gives an account of the fair warning he had of them before they came, a due regard to which might have prevented them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-18