Daniel 4:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

There shall be no other king chosen in thy room all the time thou livest as a stump of a tree. Thou shalt recover all again, young branches shall sprout out of thee, Job 14:7-9. After that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule: see Daniel 4:34,35, &c. If princes will not learn and know this, God will beat it into them. This is the end of all God's rods upon them, if they would hear the voice of them, and him that hath appointed them, 2 Chronicles 33:12,13 Psa 119:67,71 Mic 6:9. Though Nebuchadnezzar never proved a convert, yet God made him acknowledge this truth upon his restoration.

Daniel 4:26

26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.