What Does Daniel 2:10 Mean in the King James?
The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
A king can demand the hidden word, but authority cannot manufacture access to it.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you where a demand outruns what human knowing can reach. Authority and expertise can request an answer, but they cannot make a hidden thing known by themselves.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that rank or expertise can force access to every hidden thing.
THE ROOT
מִלַּת
millat
GROWS FROM
מלל
m-l-l
To speak or utter; its word-family names speech and, by extension, a thing or matter.
The Aramaic word rendered “matter” belongs to the word and utterance family of מלל. The king demands that his hidden word be spoken back to him; “matter” can conceal that the task is to disclose what has not been uttered.
ALSO GROWS
millətā: Word, speech, utterance
מִלְּתָא
This sense keeps the spoken word visible beneath the king’s “matter.”
millat: Thing, affair, matter
מִלַּת
This form names the king’s matter here and the “thing” in Daniel 2:5, linking both to the same hidden content.
THE PATTERN
Human expertise reaches a limit at hidden knowledge; revelation supplies what no demand can produce.
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.THE THREAD
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.The “thing” in Daniel 2:5 and the king’s “matter” here use the same Aramaic word, מִלַּת (millat), “word” or “matter.” That shared word shows the demand reaching beyond interpretation: the hidden content itself must be made known.
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