29<\/strong>. he<\/em> was walking upon<\/strong> the<\/em> royal palace<\/strong> of Babylon<\/em> ] ‘upon’ means on the roof of:<\/em> cf. 2Sa 11:2<\/span>.<\/p>\n At the end of twelve months – <\/B>After the dream, and the interpretation – giving him ample opportunity to repent, and to reform his life, and to avoid the calamity.<\/P> He walked in the palace – <\/B>Margin, upon. The margin is the more correct rendering. The roofs of houses in the East are made flat, and furnish a common place of promenade, especially in the cool of the evening. See the note at Mat 9:2<\/span>. The Codex Chisianus has here, The king walked upon the walls of the city with all his glory, and went around the towers, and answering, said. The place, however, upon which he walked, appears to have been the roof of his own palace – doubtless reared so high that he could have a good view of the city from it.<\/P> Of the kingdom of Babylon – <\/B>Appertaining to that kingdom; the royal residence. As it is to be supposed that this palace of the kingdom, on the roof of which the king walked, was what he had himself reared, and as this contributed much to the splendor of the capital of his empire, and doubtless was the occasion, in a considerable degree, of his vainglorious boasting when the judgment of heaven fell upon him Dan 4:30-31<\/span>, a brief description of that palace seems to he not inappropriate. The description is copied from an article on Babylon in Kittos Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, vol. i. pp. 270, 271: The new palace built by Nebuchadnezzar was prodigious in size and superb in embellishments. Its outer wall embraced six miles; within that circumference were two other embattled walls, besides a great tower. Three brazen gates led into the grand area, and every gate of consequence throughout the city was of brass. The palace was splendidly decorated with statues of men and animals, with vessels of gold and silver, and furnished with luxuries of all kinds brought thither from conquests in Egypt, Palestine, and Tyre. Its greatest boast were the hanging gardens, which acquired, even from Grecian writers, the appellation of one of the wonders of the world. They are attributed to the gallantry of Nebuchadnezzar, who constructed them in compliance with a wish of his queen Amytis to possess elevated groves, such as she had enjoyed on the hills around her native Ecbatana. Babylon was all flat, and to accomplish so extravagant a desire, an artificial mountain was reared, four hundred feet on each side, while terraces, one above another, rose to a height that overtopped the walls of the city, that is, above three hundred feet in elevation.<\/P> The ascent from terrace to terrace was made by corresponding flights of steps, while the terraces themselves were reared to their various stages on ranges of regular piers, which, forming a kind of vaulting, rose in succession one over the other to the required height of each terrace, the whole being bound together by a wall twenty-two feet in thickness. The level of each terrace or garden was then formed in the following manner: the tops of the piers were first laid over with flat stones, sixteen feet in length, and four in width; on these stones were spread beds of matting, then a thick layer of bitumen, after which came two courses of bricks, which were covered with sheets of solid lead. The earth was heaped on this platform, and in order to admit the roots of large trees, prodigious hollow piers were built and filled with mould. From the Euphrates, which flowed close to the foundation, water was drawn up by machinery. The whole, says Q. Curtius (Dan 4:5<\/span>), had, to those who saw it from a distance, the appearance of woods overhanging mountains. The remains of this palace are found in the vast mound or hill called by the natives Kasr. It is of irregular form, eight hundred yards in length, and six hundred yards in breadth. Its appearance is constantly undergoing change from the continual digging which takes place in its inexhaustible quarries for brick of the strongest and finest material. Hence, the mass is furrowed into deep ravines, crossing and recrossing each other in every direction.<\/P> <\/p>\n Here we see God did forbear the execution of his judgment decreed the space of one whole year, which may be upon Daniels words, and he did reform somewhat, as Ahab was spared a good while upon his humiliation, 1Ki 21:27<\/span>; and God would try him by giving him space of repentance, as he did to them before the flood, Gen 6:3<\/span>; and to Jezebel, Rev 2:21<\/span>; but it is most probable, though he may be a little astonished at the first, when he heard Gods decree against him, yet having this respite, he grew hardened, and thought it was over, and therefore spreads his plumes and strutted in his pride as high as ever. <\/P> <\/p>\n 29. twelve months<\/B>This respitewas granted to him to leave him without excuse. So the hundred twentyyears granted before the flood (Ge6:3<\/span>). At the first announcement of the coming judgment he wasalarmed, as Ahab (1Ki 21:27<\/span>),but did not thoroughly repent; so when judgment was not executed atonce, he thought it would never come, and so returned to his formerpride (Ec 8:11<\/span>). <\/P> in the palace<\/B>rather,upon the (flat) palace roof, whence he could contemplate the splendorof Babylon. So the heathen historian, ABYDENUS,records. The palace roof was the scene of the fall of another king(2Sa 11:2<\/span>). The outer wall ofNebuchadnezzar’s new palace embraced six miles; there were two otherembattled walls within, and a great tower, and three brazen gates.<\/P><\/p>\n At the end of twelve months<\/strong>,…. After the dream, and the interpretation of it; which, according to Bishop Usher s, Dean Prideaux t, and Mr. Whiston u, was in the year of the world 3435 A.M., and before Christ 569, and in the thirty sixth year of his reign: one whole year, a space of time, either which God gave him to repent in, or which he obtained by attending for a while to Daniel’s advice:<\/p>\n he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon<\/strong>; or “upon the palace” w; upon the roof of it, which in the eastern countries was usually flat and plain; and so Abydenus x, in the above cited place, represents him, , as ascending upon his royal palace; when, after he had finished his oration on it, he disappeared. From hence he could take a full view of the great city of Babylon, which swelled him with pride and vanity, and which he expressed in the next verse; [See comments on Da 4:4]<\/span>, where also mention is made of his palace, the new one built by him. The old palace of the kings of Babylon stood on the east side of the river Euphrates, over against it, as Dean Prideaux y observes; on the other side of the river stood the new palace Nebuchadnezzar built. The old one was four miles in circumference; but this new one was eight miles, encompassed with three walls, one within another, and strongly fortified; and in it were hanging gardens, one of the wonders of the world, made by him for the pleasure of his wife Amyitis, daughter of Astyages king of Media; who being taken with the mountainous and woody parts of her native country, and retaining an inclination for them, desired something like it at Babylon; and, to gratify her herein, this surprising work was made: though Diodorus Siculus z says it was made by a Syrian king he does not name, for the sake of his concubine; and whose account of it, and which is given from him by Dean Prideaux a, and the authors of the Universal History b, is this, and in the words of the latter:<\/p>\n “these gardens are said to contain a square of four plethra, or four hundred feet on each side, and to have consisted of terraces one above another, carried up to the height of the wall of the city; the ascent, from terrace to terrace, being by steps ten feet wide. The whole pile consisted of substantial arches up on arches, and was strengthened by a wall, surrounding it on every side, twenty two feet thick; and the floors on each of them were laid in this order: first on the tops of the arches was laid a bed or pavement of stones, sixteen feet long, and four feet broad; over this was a layer of reed, mixed with a great quantity of bitumen; and over this two courses of brick, closely cemented with plaster; and over all these were thick sheets of lead, and on these the earth or mould of the garden. This floorage was designed to retain the moisture of the mould; which was so deep as to give root to the greatest trees, which were planted on every terrace, together with great variety of other vegetables, pleasing to the eye; upon the uppermost of these terraces was a reservoir, supplied by a certain engine with water from the river, from whence the gardens at the other terraces were supplied.”<\/p>\n And it was either on the roof of the palace, as before observed, or perhaps it might be upon this uppermost terrace, that Nebuchadnezzar was walking, and from whence he might take a view of the city of Babylon; the greatness of which, as set forth by him, he prided himself with, in the following words:<\/p>\n s Annales Vet. Test. A. M. 3435. t Connexion, c. part. 1. p. 105. u Chronological Tables, cent. 10. w “super palatium”, Vatablus “super palatio”, Cecceius, Michaelis. x Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 41. p. 457.) y Connexion, &c. part 1. B. 2. p. 102. z Biliothec. I. 2. p. 98. a Ibid. b Vol. 4. B. 1. ch. 9. p. 409, 410.<\/p>\n (29) Twelve months<\/strong>i.e.,<\/em> counting from the time of the vision. Sufficient time for repentance was mercifully granted to the king.<\/p>\n Palace of the kingdom of Babylon.<\/strong>He had palaces in other towns. Daniel lays a stress upon the fact that this occurred in the town of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar, the golden head of the image, was in the very centre of his dominions, in his own proud capital, when this occurred. It is needless, therefore, to assume that this was written by a person who lived a long way off from Babylon.<\/p>\n 29, 30<\/strong>. <\/strong> This picture of the king walking on the roof garden of the royal palace in Babylon and praising himself for his magnificent building enterprises finds an echo in almost every one of his inscriptions which have been preserved. [See Introduction, III, 3, (1); 4.] He was the greatest builder of all the Babylonian kings, rebuilding the capital city almost from its foundations. Again and again he records how “silver, gold, precious stones, copper, precious woods, all kinds of valuable things, the produce of the mountains, the fullness of the seas, rich presents, splendid gifts, to my city of Babylon into his [Bel-Marduk’s] presence I brought.”<\/p>\n ‘At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. The king spoke and said, “Is not this Babylon the great which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”<\/p>\n At the end of twelve months Nebuchadnezzar exalted himself as though he were a god, as he looked around at his great achievements and possessions. Babylon was at the height of its power and glory and it was enough to stir up his mania. He considered that his dwelling place almost compared with that of the gods.<\/p>\n Here we actually have a typical example of mania. A man exalted above the norm. A year had passed since his period of depression and his dream, and now he had become ‘manic’, highly charged, and was on a high. He thus obtained an over-exalted view of himself, an extension of the pride that he no doubt always felt over his achievements. But we are not to see him as punished for the behaviour which was the result of his illness but for the underlying pride that resulted in it. However, he was so manic that it was a disturbing sign. His mental faculties were becoming ‘overheated’, and strange behaviour often results.<\/p>\n ‘The royal palace of Babylon.’ Identified because there were many royal palaces, but intended also to stress the centrality of and importance of Babylon, as the following words demonstrate. He was excessively proud of this palace which he saw as the bond which bound the empire together, as ‘wondered at’ by the people and as containing his own majesty. This pride in it comes out in the inscriptions. ‘Then I built the palace, the seat of my royalty, the bond of the race of men, the dwelling of joy and rejoicing’, and again ‘In Babylon, my dear city which I love, was the palace, the house of wonder of the people, the bond of the land, the brilliant place, the abode of the majesty in Babylon’.<\/p>\n ‘Which I have built.’ His claim was justified for he was a great builder. The inscriptions tell us how he renovated the two great temples, those of Marduk in Babylon, and of Nebo in Borsippa, how he then restored fifteen other temples in Babylon and completed the two huge walls of the city, adding a large rampart. He rebuilt the palace of his father Nabopolassar and built the palace with which the hanging gardens of Babylon were associated, and these were but a few of his achievements.<\/p>\n Dan 4:29<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>At the end of twelve months<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> God deferred the execution of his threats against this impious prince; he gave him a whole year to repent and return to him; but, seeing that he persevered in his crimes, the measure of his iniquities being full, he put his menaces in execution. See Calmet. <\/p>\n He walked in the palace<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> As he was walking upon the palace. <\/em>It is well known, that the roofs of the buildings in the East were flat or plain, over which the inhabitants used to walk for pleasure. “The palace of Koscam, (says Mr. Bruce, vol. 4: p. 271.) consists of a square tower of three stories, with a flat parapet roof or terrace, and battlements about it.” But “the palace of Gondar and all its contiguous buildings are surrounded by a substantial stone wall thirty feet high, with battlements upon the outer wall, and a parapet roof between the outer and inner, by which you can go along the whole and look into the street: the four sides of this wall are above an English mile and half in length.” Vol. 3: p. 380. In a situation like one of these was Nebuchadnezzar placed in the passage before us, in order to take a more full view of his city, and to enjoy the fresh air, according to Sir John Chardin, that is, to gratify his ease and pride; when he pronounced the following extravagant soliloquy. <\/p>\n Dan 4:29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.<\/p>\n Ver. 29. At the end of twelve months he walked,<\/strong> ] scil., <\/em> A year after the dream, the interpretation thereof, and the good counsel given him thereupon. It is some wonder how he could so soon forget all; but the world, with the lusts thereof, had hardened his heart. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the palace of the kingdom.<\/strong> ] His idle walk, and his stately palace, were some occasion of his pride and fall. He walketh and stalketh, musing of nothing but his own greatness only.<\/p>\n Dan 4:29-30<\/p>\n Dan 4:29 At the endH7118 of twelveH8648 H6236 monthsH3393 he walkedH1934 H1981 inH5922 the palaceH1965 of the kingdomH4437 ofH1768 Babylon.H895 <\/p>\n Dan 4:30 The kingH4430 spake,H6032 and said,H560 Is notH3809 thisH1668 greatH7229 Babylon,H895 thatH1768 IH576 have builtH1124 for the houseH1005 of the kingdomH4437 by the mightH8632 of my power,H2632 and for the honourH3367 of my majesty?H1923 <\/p>\n Dan 4:29-30<\/p>\n At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The 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?<\/p>\n A year after Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, he was walking through his palace and congratulating himself on his kingdom. Notice the personal pronouns used by the king. The great Babylon the “I” have built, by the might of “MY” power and for the honor of “MY” majesty. Nebuchadnezzar is being downright egotistical here. He is not giving any credit or glory for his achievements to God whatsoever. It’s all about Nebuchadnezzar. He was being arrogant beyond reason. <\/p>\n There are plenty of people today who could benefit greatly from the lesson Nebuchadnezzar is about to learn. And it is up to them to learn about God’s disdain for the personal pride of man and make the right application in their lives. As discussed earlier, Nebuchadnezzar had a tremendous blessing in that God dealt directly with him on a personal level before it was too late. Many people living after him may never learn of the dangers of a haughty spirit until it is too late to rectify the situation. What a sad day it will be for many in life to learn that their pride was their downfall. They will be able to look back on the example of Nebuchadnezzar and the consequences of his pride and see where they could have learned but did not. <\/p>\n end: Gen 6:3, Ecc 8:11, 1Pe 3:20, 2Pe 3:9, 2Pe 3:10, 2Pe 3:15, Rev 2:21 <\/p>\n in: or, upon <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Sa 7:1 – the king 1Ch 17:1 – as David Isa 47:7 – thou saidst<\/p>\n Dan 4:29. God was very lenient and gave Nebuchadnezzar a year to change his ways but to no avail. Therefore it was time to bring the fulfillment of the dream upon the king, and the Lord chose a time th.it was especially ap-propriate. Nebuchadnezzar gave a demonstration of his chief fault (pride) as he was walking around the palace.<\/p>\n 4:29 At the end of twelve {q} months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.<\/p>\n (q) After Daniel had declared this vision: and this pride of his declares that it is not in man to convert to God, unless his Spirit moves him, seeing that these terrible threatenings could not move him to repent.<\/p>\n Archaeologists have discovered ancient documents in which Nebuchadnezzar boasted of the glory and splendor of Babylon. [Note: See Montgomery, pp. 243-44; and Archer, "Daniel," p. 65.] <\/span><\/p>\n "The palace from which he surveyed Babylon was one of the citadels on the north side of the city. It had large courts, reception rooms, throne room, residences, and the famous hanging gardens, a vaulted, terraced structure with an elaborate water supply for its trees and plants, apparently built by Nebuchadnezzar for his Median queen. From the palace he would see in the distance the city’s 27km outer double wall, which he had built. His palace stood just inside the double wall of the inner city, which was punctuated by eight gates and encircled an area 3km by 1km, with the Euphrates running through it. The palace adjoined a processional avenue that Nebuchadnezzar had paved with limestone and decorated with lion figures, emblematic of Ishtar; this avenue entered the city through the Ishtar Gate, which he had decorated with dragons and bulls (emblems of Marduk and Bel). It continued south through the city to the most important sacred precincts, to whose beautifying and development Nebuchadnezzar had contributed, the ziggurat crowned by a temple of Marduk where the god’s statue resided. In Marduk’s temple there were also shrines to other gods, and in the city elsewhere temples of other Babylonian gods, restored or beautified by Nebuchadnezzar." [Note: Goldingay, pp. 89-90.] <\/span><\/p>\n Josephus quoted the ancient writer Berossus who in his Chaldaic History<\/span> gave a description of Nebuchadnezzar’s building activities. [Note: Josephus, 10:11:1. See also Whitcomb, pp. 65-66; and Campbell, p. 50, for additional descriptions.] <\/span><\/p>\n "The discovery of the cuneiform inscriptions has remarkably confirmed the accuracy of this vs. From these we learn that Neb. was primarily, not a warrior, but a builder." [Note: Young, p. 109.] <\/span><\/p>\n At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 29. he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon ] ‘upon’ means on the roof of: cf. 2Sa 11:2. 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