At the end of the twelve months he was walking about the royal palace of Babylon.
Parallel translations
- WEB At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- KJV At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
- BSB Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
- NASB Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.
- NLT Twelve months later he was taking a walk on the flat roof of the royal palace in Babylon.
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Quick answer
A year later the king is walking on his palace roof in Babylon. The setting frames his moment of fatal pride.
Overview
The passing of twelve months shows God's patience, giving time for the repentance Daniel urged. Surveying his great city, the king is poised to claim its glory as his own. The scene sets up the boast that triggers the long-warned judgment.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Rev 2:21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
- 1 Pet 3:20who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
- 2 Pet 3:9–10The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- Gen 6:3Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
- 2 Pet 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
- Eccl 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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Daniel sees the stone cut without hands that shatters the kingdoms, and 'one like a son of man' given everlasting dominion — titles and visions Jesus claims as his own.
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