Daniel 4:17
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17 ‘This decision is by the decree of the watchers,
And the sentence by the word of the holy ones,
In order (A)that the living may know
(B)That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men,
(C)Gives it to whomever He will,
And sets over it the (D)lowest of men.’
Daniel 4:25
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25 They shall (A)drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you (B)eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven [a]times shall pass over you, (C)till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and (D)gives it to whomever He chooses.
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- Daniel 4:25 Possibly years
Daniel 2:21
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21 And He changes (A)the times and the seasons;
(B)He removes kings and raises up kings;
(C)He gives wisdom to the wise
And knowledge to those who have understanding.
1 Samuel 2:8
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8 (A)He raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the beggar from the ash heap,
(B)To set them among princes
And make them inherit the throne of glory.
(C)“For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
And He has set the world upon them.
Daniel 5:18-21
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18 O king, (A)the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your [a]father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor. 19 And because of the majesty that He gave him, (B)all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he (C)executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. 20 (D)But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. 21 Then he was (E)driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, (F)till he [b]knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses.
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- Daniel 5:18 Or ancestor
- Daniel 5:21 Recognized
Jeremiah 27:5-7
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5 (A)‘I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and (B)have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. 6 (C)And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (D)My servant; and (E)the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. 7 (F)So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, (G)until the time of his land comes; (H)and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.
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Psalm 75:6-7
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6 For exaltation comes neither from the east
Nor from the west nor from the south.
7 But (A)God is the Judge:
(B)He puts down one,
And exalts another.
1 Corinthians 1:28
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28 and the [a]base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
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- 1 Corinthians 1:28 insignificant or lowly
Daniel 11:21
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21 And in his place (A)shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
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Psalm 113:7-8
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7 (A)He raises the poor out of the dust,
And lifts the (B)needy out of the ash heap,
8 That He may (C)seat him with princes—
With the princes of His people.
Daniel 4:32-35
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32 And (A)they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven [a]times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.”
33 That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
Nebuchadnezzar Praises God
34 And (B)at the end of the [b]time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him (C)who lives forever:
For His dominion is (D)an everlasting dominion,
And His kingdom is from generation to generation.
35 (E)All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
(F)He does according to His will in the army of heaven
And among the inhabitants of the earth.
(G)No one can restrain His hand
Or say to Him, (H)“What have You done?”
Footnotes
- Daniel 4:32 Possibly years
- Daniel 4:34 Lit. days
Psalm 83:17-18
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17 Let them be [a]confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 (A)That they may know that You, whose (B)name alone is the Lord,
Are (C)the Most High over all the earth.
Footnotes
- Psalm 83:17 ashamed
Exodus 9:16
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16 But indeed for (A)this purpose I have raised you up, that I may (B)show My power in you, and that My (C)name may be declared in all the earth.
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Daniel 4:13-14
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13 “I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and there was (A)a watcher, (B)a holy one, coming down from heaven. 14 He cried [a]aloud and said thus:
(C)‘Chop down the tree and cut off its branches,
Strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit.
(D)Let the beasts get out from under it,
And the birds from its branches.
Footnotes
- Daniel 4:14 Lit. with strength
Ezekiel 25:17
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17 I will (A)execute great vengeance on them with furious rebukes; (B)and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I lay My vengeance upon them.” ’ ”
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Ezekiel 7:24
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24 Therefore I will bring the (A)worst of the Gentiles,
And they will possess their houses;
I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
And their holy places shall be (B)defiled.
Isaiah 6:3
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3 And one cried to another and said:
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Psalm 9:16
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16 The Lord is (A)known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
(B)Meditation.[a] Selah
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- Psalm 9:16 Heb. Higgaion
2 Kings 21:6-18
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6 (A)Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced (B)soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 He even set a carved image of [a]Asherah that he had made, in the [b]house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, (C)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; 8 (D)and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers—only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.” 9 But they paid no attention, and Manasseh (E)seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the Lord spoke (F)by His servants the prophets, saying, 11 (G)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ((H)he has acted more wickedly than all the (I)Amorites who were before him, and (J)has also made Judah sin with his idols), 12 therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both (K)his ears will tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem (L)the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; (M)I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 So I will forsake the (N)remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies, 15 because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”
16 (O)Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.
17 Now (P)the rest of the acts of (Q)Manasseh—all that he did, and the sin that he committed—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18 So (R)Manasseh [c]rested with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.
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- 2 Kings 21:7 A Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 21:7 Temple
- 2 Kings 21:18 Died and joined his ancestors
1 Kings 21:25
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25 But (A)there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, (B)because Jezebel his wife [a]stirred him up.
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- 1 Kings 21:25 incited him
Revelation 4:8
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8 The four living creatures, each having (A)six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying:
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- Revelation 4:8 M has holy nine times.
1 Timothy 5:21
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21 I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the [a]elect angels that you observe these things without (A)prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.
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- 1 Timothy 5:21 chosen
Daniel 4:8-9
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8 But at last Daniel came before me (A)(his name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god; (B)in him is the Spirit of the Holy God), and I told the dream before him, saying: 9 “Belteshazzar, (C)chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Holy God is in you, and no secret troubles you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.
Isaiah 6:8
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8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:
“Whom shall I send,
And who will go for (A)Us?”
Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
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Psalm 12:8
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8 The wicked prowl on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
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