Book of Daniel

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Daniel 5:12 (KJV) Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.

 

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Daniel 5:13 (KJV) Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?

 

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Daniel 5:14 (KJV) I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.

 

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Daniel 5:15 (KJV) 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:

 

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Daniel 5:16 (KJV) 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.

 

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Daniel 5:17 (KJV) 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.

 

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Daniel 5:18 (KJV) O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:

 

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Daniel 5:19 (KJV) 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.

 

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Daniel 5:20 (KJV) 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:

 

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Daniel 5:21
"He ws also driven away from mankind, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his dwelling place was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.

 

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Daniel 5:22
"Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

 

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Daniel 5:23
23 but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and our ways, you have not glorified.

 

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Daniel 5:24 "Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.

 

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Daniel 5:25
"Now this is the inscription that was written out; 'MENE, ME, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.'

 

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Daniel 5:26
This is the intepretation of each word MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;

 

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Daniel 5:27 (KJV) TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

 

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Daniel 5:28 (KJV) PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

 

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Daniel 5:29 (KJV) Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

 

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Daniel 5:30 (KJV) In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

 

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Daniel 5:31 (KJV) And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.