Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 2:4

4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack , O king, live for ever : tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation .

That is in the Chaldee Tongue for Syria or Aram is taken in a large sense sometimes, containing Assyria, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Phaenicia, Palestine, 2 King. 18.26. and from hence all is written in the Chaldee Language, and not Hebrew, because it most concerned that people, to the 8th. Chapter, and from thence in Hebrew again.

This was a salutation to Princes of old, 1 Sam. 10.24. 1 King. 1.25. their meaning was, let him live a long happy Life, for thus the word live is often taken, Psal. 34.12. for this is agreeable to the desires of all Worldly men in their prosperity.

It is observed of old to this day, that there is not any sort of men who are such flatterers, as are impostors, so confident and arrogant are these Fortune-Tellers, that they promise to interpret a dream, which they never knew; this was boldly said of them, seeing the Egyptian Magicians could not interpret Pharaohs dream though he told it them, Gen. 41.8.

Marginal references: chap. 3.9. and 6.6, 21.