Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Nobles. Lit. “satraps,” or, “the king’s domestics.” Septuagint in 1 Ezra 8:36.—Judges, or “governors of provinces.” ib. Theodotion, and so forth—Captains of the soothsayers.—Rulers; “tyrants,” here denoting treasurers. Calmet.—Governors. Lit. “the grandees who were in power;” ( Bible.) counsellors. The original adds, ( Calmet.) Thopthia, ( Bible.) “lawyers” and orators. The head of the Turkish religion is called muphti, from the root, ( Calmet.) peti, “to teach.” Bible.