thing. The dream.
gone from me. Referring to the forgotten dream.
cut... made. dunghill. Compare Daniel 3:29; Ezra 6:11. A further mode of punishment, from the Medo-Persians, in Daniel 6:7.
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Daniel 2:5
5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cuta in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.