Daniel 4:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: I-- was at rest - I had returned to my palace in Babylon after having subdued Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Egypt, and Arabia. It was probably these great conquests that puffed him up with pride, and brought that chastisement upon him which he afterwards describes. See the dream of the emblematical tree explained.