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Da 8:27 Strong Concordance And I Daniel [01840] fainted [01961], and was sick [02470] certain days [03117]; afterward I rose up [06965], and did [06213] the king's [04428] business [04399]; and I was astonished [08074] at the vision [04758], but none understood [0995] it.
  King James And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
I . . . was sick--through grief at the calamities coming on my people and the Church of God (compare Psa 102:14).

afterward I . . . did the king's business--He who holds nearest communion with heaven can best discharge the duties of common life.

none understood it--He had heard of kings, but knew not their names; He foresaw the events, but not the time when they were to take place; thereupon he could only feel "astonished," and leave all with the omniscient God [JEROME].

The world powers here recede from view; Israel, and the salvation by Messiah promised to it, are the subject of revelation. Israel had naturally expected salvation at the end of the captivity. Daniel is therefore told, that, after the seventy years of the captivity, seventy times seven must elapse, and that even then Messiah would not come in glory as the Jews might through misunderstanding expect from the earlier prophets, but by dying would put away sin. This ninth chapter (Messianic prophecy) stands between the two visions of the Old Testament Antichrist, to comfort "the wise." In the interval between Antiochus and Christ, no further revelation was needed; therefore, as in the first part of the book, so in the second, Christ and Antichrist in connection are the theme.
 
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14 For thy servants [05650] take pleasure [07521] in her stones [068], and favour [02603] the dust [06083] thereof.
19 Then [0116] Daniel [01841], whose name [08036] was Belteshazzar [01096], was astonied [08075] for one [02298] hour [08160], and his thoughts [07476] troubled [0927] him. The king [04430] spake [06032], and said [0560], Belteshazzar [01096], let not [0409] the dream [02493], or the interpretation [06591] thereof, trouble [0927] thee. Belteshazzar [01096] answered [06032] and said [0560], My lord [04756], the dream [02493] be to them that hate [08131] thee, and the interpretation [06591] thereof to thine enemies [06146].
2 And I saw [07200] in a vision [02377]; and it came to pass, when I saw [07200], that I was at Shushan [07800] in the palace [01002], which is in the province [04082] of Elam [05867]; and I saw [07200] in a vision [02377], and I was by the river [0180] of Ulai [0195].
1 And in the second [08147] year [08141] of the reign [04438] of Nebuchadnezzar [05019] Nebuchadnezzar [05019] dreamed [02492] dreams [02472], wherewith his spirit [07307] was troubled [06470], and his sleep [08142] brake [01961] from him.