The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”
This confession is quite pious and holy, and is fraught with rectitude and sincerity; it may even be taken as a proof of true conversion and repentance. But, as I have lately reminded you, profane men are sometimes seized with an admiration of God and then they profess largely and copiously whatever may be expected from God’s true worshippers.
Nebuchadnezzar saw divinity in Daniel after this revelation and fell to worship him, commanding oblation and incense. God magnified His own word so powerfully that a proud king forgot Daniel was a man and forgot he himself was king. Though such worship cannot be justified, Daniel likely refused these honors, as Peter and John refused the like.
AI summary
Commenting on Daniel 2:46-49
The king answered unto Daniel,.... By which it appears that Daniel interposed and expostulated with the king, and prevented the oblation to him as a god, and instructed him in the knowledge of the true God he ought to worship; as the following confession of the king more clearly shows: and said, of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods...