KJV King James Version
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
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Daniel 5:18
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
WEB World English Bible
You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
ASV American Standard Version
O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:
Surrounding context — Daniel 5
15 And now the wise [men], the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אַ֖נְתְּH607 · an.tahyouמַלְכָּ֑אH4430 · me.lekhkingאֱלָהָא֙H426 · e.lahgodעִלָּאָ֔הH5943 · il.layMost Highמַלְכוּתָ֤אH4437 · mal.khukingdomוּרְבוּתָא֙H7238 · re.vugreatnessוִיקָרָ֣אH3367 · ye.qarhonorוְהַדְרָ֔הH1923 · ha.darhonorיְהַ֖בH3052 · ye.havto giveלִנְבֻכַדְנֶצַּ֥רH5020 · ne.vu.khad.nets.tsarNebuchadnezzarאֲבֽוּךְ׃H2 · avfather
Cross-references
Daniel 2:37-38Thou, O king, [art] a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.Daniel 4:17This matter [is] by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.Daniel 4:22-25It [is] thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.Daniel 4:2I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.Daniel 6:22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.Lamentations 3:38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?Acts 26:13At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.Jeremiah 27:7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.Psalm 9:2I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.Psalm 92:8But thou, LORD, [art most] high for evermore.Acts 7:48Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,Deuteronomy 32:8When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.Lamentations 3:35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,Acts 26:19Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:Daniel 3:17-18If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king.Psalm 7:17I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.Daniel 4:32And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling [shall be] with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.Psalm 47:2For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over all the earth.
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