vessels. Compare Daniel 1:2. and see 2 Kings 25:15; 2 Chronicles 36:10.
father Nebuchadnezzar. No "historical difficulty". Critics should tell us what word Daniel could have used, seeing there is no word in Chaldee or Hebrew for "grandfather". The word "father" is used by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, for ancestor. Compare 1 Kings 15:11-13, where David is called the "father" of Asa, and Maachah is called his mother (compare 2 Kings 15:1; 2 Kings 15:2 with 11-13). In 2 Kings 14:3 the same is said of Amaziah; and in 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 34:2, of Josiah. Compare Romans 9:10, where Paul speaks of "our father Isaac". But Jeremiah 27:7 explains the matter fully: "all nations shall serve him (i.e. Nebuchadnezzar), and his son (Nabonidus), and his son's son (Belshazzar), until the very time of his land come". See note on Daniel 7:1.
taken out. brought forth. Compare Ezra 1:7.
princes. Chaldee. rabreban, as in Daniel 5:3, same as "lords" in verses: Daniel 5:1; Daniel 5:9; Daniel 5:10, Dan 1:23. Elsewhere, only in this book, in Daniel 4:36, and Daniel 6:17.
wives. Showing that the "queen" mentioned in Daniel 5:10 must have been his mother.