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Daniel 2
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- 2:1 And in the
second
year of the
reign of
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar
dreamed
dreams, wherewith his
spirit was
troubled, and his
sleep
brake from him.
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- 2:2 Then the
king
commanded to
call the
magicians, and the
astrologers, and the
sorcerers, and the
Chaldeans, for to
shew the
king his
dreams. So they
came and
stood
before the
king.
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- 2:3 And the
king
said unto them, I have
dreamed a
dream, and my
spirit was
troubled to
know the
dream.
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- 2:4 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.
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- 2:5 The
king
answered and
said to the
Chaldeans, The
thing is
gone from
me:
if ye will
not make
known unto me the
dream, with the
interpretation thereof, ye shall be
cut in
pieces, and your
houses shall be
made a
dunghill.
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- 2:6 But
if ye
shew the
dream, and the
interpretation thereof, ye shall
receive
of
me
gifts and
rewards and
great
honour:
therefore
shew me the
dream, and the
interpretation thereof.
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- 2:7 They
answered
again and
said, Let the
king
tell his
servants the
dream, and we will
shew the
interpretation of it.
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- 2:8 The
king
answered and
said,
I
know
of
certainty that
ye would
gain the
time,
because
ye
see the
thing is
gone
from me.
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- 2:9 But
if ye will
not make
known unto me the
dream, there is but
one
*
decree for you: for ye have
prepared
lying and
corrupt
words to
speak
before me,
till the
time be
changed:
therefore
tell me the
dream, and I shall
know
that ye can
shew me the
interpretation thereof.
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- 2:10 The
Chaldeans
answered
before the
king, and
said, There
is
not a
man
upon the
earth that
can
shew the
king's
matter:
therefore
there is
no
king,
lord, nor
ruler, that
asked
such
things at
any
magician, or
astrologer, or
Chaldean.
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- 2:11 And it is a
rare
thing that the
king
requireth, and there
is
none
other that can
shew it
before the
king,
except the
gods, whose
dwelling
is
not
with
flesh.
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- 2:12
For
this
cause the
king was
angry and
very
furious, and
commanded to
destroy
all the
wise men of
Babylon.
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- 2:13 And the
decree went
forth that the
wise men should be
slain; and they
sought
Daniel and his
fellows to be
slain.
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- 2:14
Then
Daniel
answered with
counsel and
wisdom to
Arioch the
captain
of the
king's
guard, which was gone
forth to
slay the
wise men of
Babylon:
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- 2:15 He
answered and
said to
Arioch the
king's
captain,
Why
is the
decree so
hasty
from
the
king?
Then
Arioch made the
thing
known to
Daniel.
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- 2:16 Then
Daniel went
in, and
desired
of the
king that he would
give him
time, and that he would
shew the
king the
interpretation.
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- 2:17
Then
Daniel
went to his
house, and made the
thing
known to
Hananiah,
Mishael, and
Azariah, his
companions:
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- 2:18 That they would
desire
mercies
of
the
God of
heaven
concerning
this
secret; that
Daniel and his
fellows should
not
perish
with the
rest of the
wise men of
Babylon.
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- 2:19
Then was the
secret
revealed unto
Daniel in a
night
vision.
Then
Daniel
blessed the
God of
heaven.
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- 2:20
Daniel
answered and
said,
Blessed
be the
name of
God
for
ever and
ever
*: for
wisdom and
might
are his:
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- 2:21 And he
changeth the
times and the
seasons: he
removeth
kings, and setteth
up
kings: he
giveth
wisdom unto the
wise, and
knowledge to them that
know
understanding:
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- 2:22 He
revealeth the
deep and secret
things: he
knoweth
what is in the
darkness, and the
light
dwelleth with
him.
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- 2:23
I
thank thee, and
praise thee, O thou
God of my
fathers, who hast
given me
wisdom and
might, and hast made
known unto me
now what we
desired of
thee: for thou hast now made
known unto us the
king's
matter.
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- 2:24
Therefore
*
*
Daniel went
in
unto
Arioch, whom the
king had
ordained to
destroy the
wise men of
Babylon: he
went and
said
thus unto him;
Destroy
not the
wise men of
Babylon: bring me
in
before the
king, and I will
shew unto the
king the
interpretation.
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- 2:25
Then
Arioch brought
in
Daniel
before the
king in
haste, and
said
thus unto him, I have
found a
man of the
captives
*
of
Judah, that will make
known unto the
king the
interpretation.
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- 2:26 The
king
answered and
said to
Daniel, whose
name was
Belteshazzar,
Art thou
able to make
known unto me the
dream which I have
seen, and the
interpretation thereof?
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- 2:27
Daniel
answered in the
presence of the
king, and
said, The
secret which the
king hath
demanded
cannot
* the
wise men, the
astrologers, the
magicians, the
soothsayers,
shew unto the
king;
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- 2:28
But there
is a
God in
heaven that
revealeth
secrets, and maketh
known to the
king
Nebuchadnezzar
what shall
be in the
latter
days. Thy
dream, and the
visions of thy
head
upon thy
bed, are
these;
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- 2:29 As for
thee, O
king, thy
thoughts
came into thy mind
upon thy
bed,
what should come to
pass
hereafter
*: and he that
revealeth
secrets maketh
known to thee
what shall come to
pass.
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- 2:30 But as for
me,
this
secret is
not
revealed to me for any
wisdom that I
have more
than
any
living,
but for their
sakes
that shall make
known the
interpretation to the
king, and that thou mightest
know the
thoughts of thy
heart.
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- 2:31
Thou, O
king,
sawest
* , and
behold a
great
*
image.
This
great
image, whose
brightness was
excellent,
stood
before thee; and the
form thereof was
terrible.
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- 2:32 This
image's
head was of
fine
gold, his
breast and his
arms of
silver, his
belly and his
thighs of
brass,
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- 2:33 His
legs of
iron, his
feet
part of
iron and
part of
clay.
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- 2:34 Thou
sawest
*
till that a
stone was cut
out
without
hands, which
smote the
image
upon his
feet that were of
iron and
clay, and
brake
them to
pieces.
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- 2:35
Then was the
iron, the
clay, the
brass, the
silver, and the
gold, broken to
pieces
(8754)
together, and
became like the
chaff
of the
summer
threshingfloors; and the
wind
carried
them
away,
that
no
place was
found for them: and the
stone that
smote the
image
became a
great
mountain, and
filled the
whole
earth.
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- 2:36
This is the
dream; and we will
tell the
interpretation thereof
before the
king.
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- 2:37
Thou, O
king, art a
king of
kings: for the
God of
heaven hath
given thee a
kingdom,
power, and
strength, and
glory.
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- 2:38 And
wheresoever the
children of
men
dwell, the
beasts of the
field and the
fowls of the
heaven hath he
given into thine
hand, and hath made thee
ruler over them
all.
Thou art this
head of
gold.
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- 2:39 And
after thee shall
arise
another
kingdom
inferior to
thee, and
another
third
kingdom of
brass, which shall bear
rule over
all the
earth.
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- 2:40 And the
fourth
kingdom shall
be
strong as
iron: forasmuch as
iron breaketh in
pieces and
subdueth
all things: and
as
iron that
breaketh
all
these, shall it break in
pieces and
bruise.
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- 2:41 And whereas thou
sawest the
feet and
toes,
part of
potters'
clay, and
part of
iron, the
kingdom shall
be
divided;
but there shall
be in it
of the
strength of the
iron, forasmuch
as
thou
sawest the
iron
mixed with
miry
clay.
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- 2:42 And as the
toes of the
feet were
part of
iron, and
part of
clay, so the
kingdom shall
be
partly
*
strong, and
partly
*
broken.
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- 2:43 And
whereas thou
sawest
iron
mixed with
miry
clay, they shall mingle
themselves
* with the
seed of
men: but they
shall
not
cleave
one
to
another,
even as
iron is
not
mixed with
clay.
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- 2:44 And in the
days of
these
kings shall the
God of
heaven set
up a
kingdom, which shall
never
be
destroyed: and the
kingdom shall
not be
left to
other
people, but it shall break in
pieces and
consume
all
these
kingdoms, and
it shall
stand for
ever.
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- 2:45 Forasmuch
as
thou
sawest that the
stone was cut
out of the
mountain
without
hands, and that it brake in
pieces the
iron, the
brass, the
clay, the
silver, and the
gold; the
great
God hath made
known to the
king
what shall come to
pass
hereafter
*: and the
dream is
certain, and the
interpretation thereof
sure.
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- 2:46
Then the
king
Nebuchadnezzar
fell
upon his
face, and
worshipped
Daniel, and
commanded that they should
offer an
oblation and sweet
odours unto him.
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- 2:47 The
king
answered unto
Daniel, and
said,
Of a
truth it is,
that your
God is a
God of
gods, and a
Lord of
kings, and a
revealer of
secrets, seeing thou
couldest
reveal
this
secret.
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- 2:48
Then the
king
made
Daniel a great
man, and
gave him
many
great
gifts, and made him
ruler
over the
whole
province of
Babylon, and
chief of the
governors
over
all the
wise men of
Babylon.
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- 2:49 Then
Daniel
requested
of the
king, and he
set
Shadrach,
Meshach, and
Abednego,
over the
affairs of the
province of
Babylon: but
Daniel sat in the
gate of the
king.
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