Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 2:11

11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh .

The Chaldeans bring three arguments to convince the King. 1. There is not a man upon Earth can shew the Kings matter. 2. There is no King requires such a thing of any Magician. 3. None but the gods can do this. The Chaldeans with other Gentiles did believe more gods then one, and the supream Deity or Deities did not meddle with the affairs of men, but had the cognisance by inferiour or intermediate Demons. So Plato and many of them held, the meaning then is this, seeing there are some things that God who knoweth all things will not communicate the knowledge of to men, and hath not done it to us, it is therefore a singular and unreasonable thing the King should require it of us, and that so suddenly, and upon such penalties.