Daniel Chapter 10 verse 15 Holy Bible
and when he had spoken unto me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was dumb.
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And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything.
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And as he was speaking with me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
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And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
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and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.
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`And when he speaketh with me about these things, I have set my face toward the earth, and have been silent;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. The versions agree with the above. I set my face toward the ground does not mean that Daniel again fell prostrate, but that his eyes naturally sought the ground. And I became dumb. Not to be regarded as equivalent to "I remained silent," though there is nothing in the narrative to indicate that Daniel had been speaking; he may have had the sensation of paralyzed vocal cords. Certainly the verb 'alam means "to be dumb," although, as with ourselves, this phrase dots not mean always physiological dumbness, but simply a silence which, from shyness or fear, one is unable to break. This is the meaning the versions attach to it. The opinion we indicate finds support in the dumbness of Zacharias, the father of John Baptist, after Gabriel appeared to him, and, still more, in what is related in the following verse.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) I set my face.--The conduct of Daniel described in this verse is not to be ascribed to his fear, for that had been already driven away (Daniel 10:12), but to his reverence for the majestic person who was before him, and to the gratitude that he felt for the answer to his prayer. (Comp. Daniel 9:3-4.)
