Daniel 4:29 Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,

English Standard Version
At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,

New American Standard Bible
"Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.

King James Bible
At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
At the end of 12 months, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace in Babylon,

International Standard Version
About a year later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,

American Standard Version
At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the end of twelve months he was walking in the palace of Babylon.

Darby Bible Translation
At the end of twelve months he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon:

Young's Literal Translation
'At the end of twelve months, on the palace of the kingdom of Babylon he hath been walking;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:28-37 Pride and self-conceit are sins that beset great men. They are apt to take that glory to themselves which is due to God only. While the proud word was in the king's mouth, the powerful word came from God. His understanding and his memory were gone, and all the powers of the rational soul were broken. How careful we ought to be, not to do any thing which may provoke God to put us out of our senses! God resists the proud. Nebuchadnezzar would be more than a man, but God justly makes him less than a man. We may learn to believe concerning God, that the most high God lives for ever, and that his kingdom is like himself, everlasting, and universal. His power cannot be resisted. When men are brought to honour God, by confession of sin and acknowledging his sovereignty, then, and not till then, they may expect that God will honour them; not only restore them to the dignity they lost by the sin of the first Adam, but add excellent majesty to them, from the righteousness and grace of the Second Adam. Afflictions shall last no longer than till they have done the work for which they were sent. There can be no reasonable doubt that Nebuchadnezzar was a true penitent, and an accepted believer. It is thought that he did not live more than a year after his restoration. Thus the Lord knows how to abase those that walk in pride, but gives grace and consolation to the humble, broken-hearted sinner who calls upon Him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. twelve months—This respite was granted to him to leave him without excuse. So the hundred twenty years granted before the flood (Ge 6:3). At the first announcement of the coming judgment he was alarmed, as Ahab (1Ki 21:27), but did not thoroughly repent; so when judgment was not executed at once, he thought it would never come, and so returned to his former pride (Ec 8:11).

in the palace—rather, upon the (flat) palace roof, whence he could contemplate the splendor of Babylon. So the heathen historian, Abydenus, records. The palace roof was the scene of the fall of another king (2Sa 11:2). The outer wall of Nebuchadnezzar's new palace embraced six miles; there were two other embattled walls within, and a great tower, and three brazen gates.