Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Daniel 4:30 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 30. 30The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
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Quick Meaning
Daniel 4:30 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the…”.
Read It With
- Daniel 4:28–33
Read Daniel 4:30 with 4:28–33. Daniel 4:30 advances “Royal Pride Meets the Announced Judgment” with the textual step “The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: A boast over Babylon is interrupted by the sentence, and the king is driven from human society until the specified period passes.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This boundary keeps “Royal Pride Meets the Announced Judgment” together inside the larger chapter movement and prevents the next scene or disclosure from being flattened into it. At Daniel 4:30, the wording “The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the…” supplies this verse's distinct step.
Follow the Context
- Read the opening words of Daniel 4:28-33 as the entry into “Royal Pride Meets the Announced Judgment.”
- A boast over Babylon is interrupted by the sentence, and the king is driven from human society until the specified period passes.
- Let verse 33 complete this movement before moving to 4:34-37.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
The fall does not prove every illness or career loss is punishment for pride.
What Remains True
Leadership becomes inhuman when it treats shared labor and public life as the ruler's personal monument. Daniel 4:30 contributes the concrete textual step “The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the…”.
How It Can Shape Life
- Name the people and systems behind achievements, create accountability before applause grows, and protect those harmed by a leader's loss of capacity. Keep Daniel 4:30 inside 4:28–33 and do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Teach It Back
Explain Daniel 4:30's role in 4:28–33. Name the ancient setting, quote or paraphrase “The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the…”, state one material uncertainty, and name one conclusion the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Daniel 4:28-33 — Royal Pride Meets the Announced JudgmentSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Daniel 4:30 must be read with this unit-level uncertainty: Readers debate whether a known illness explains the story or whether the animalization is literary. No retrospective diagnosis is secure; the package treats it as narrative imagery.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Daniel 4:28-33, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Daniel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew-Aramaic wording, morphology, language boundary, names, repeated roots, clauses, and lexical controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Dan.xml, 4:28-33; Hebrew 1:1–2:4a and 8:1–12:13, Aramaic 2:4b–7:28
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Daniel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew-Aramaic, textual, historical, translation, chronology, angelic-language, and duration notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Daniel PDF, printed pp. 1650–1653, translation and translator notes on 4:28-33
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