Daniel:2
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And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar ,
Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams ,
whereat his spirit was troubled ,
and his sleep that was upon him was gone .
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Then said the king to call the magicians ,
and the astrologers and the sorcerers ,
and the Chaldeans ,
to solve for the king his dreams :
and they came and placed themselves before the king .
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And the king said unto them ,
I have dreamed a dream ,
and my spirit is troubled to know the dream .
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Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Aramic ,
O king ,
live for ever :
recite the dream to thy servants ,
and we will tell the interpretation .
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The king answered and said to the Chaldeans ,
The decree is firmly resolved on by me :
If ye do not make known unto me the dream with its interpretation ,
ye shall be cut in pieces ,
and your houses shall be changed into a dunghill .
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But if ye tell the dream and its interpretation ,
then shall ye receive gifts and rewards and great honor from me .
Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation .
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They answered the second time and said ,
Let the king recite the dream to his servants ,
and we will tell its interpretation .
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The king answered and said ,
I know of a certainty that ye wish to gain time ,
because ye see the decree is firmly resolved on by me :
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That if ye do not make known unto me the dream ,
there is but one sentence for you ;
for ye have prepared lying and deceptive words to speak before me ,
till the time be changed .
Therefore relate to me the dream ,
and I shall know that ye can tell me its interpretation .
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The Chaldeans answered before the king ,
and said ,
There is not a man upon the habitable earth that can tell the king
s matter :
wherefore no mighty and powerful king ever hath asked such a thing of any magician ,
or astrologer ,
or Chaldean .
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And the matter which the king requireth is difficult ,
and there is no other that can tell it before the king ,
except the gods ,
whose dwelling is not with flesh .
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For all this cause the king became angry ,
and very furious ;
and he commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon .
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And the law went forth and the wise men were slain :
and they sought Daniel and his companions to slay them .
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Then made Daniel representations with intelligence and prudence to Aryoch the captain of the king
s guard ,
who was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon .
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He commenced and said to Aryoch the king
s commander ,
Wherefore is the law so hasty from the king ?
Then made Aryoch the matter known to Daniel .
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But Daniel went in ,
and requested of the king that he would give him time ,
that he might tell the interpretation to the king .
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Then went Daniel to his house ,
and made the matter known to Chananyah ,
Mishael ,
and
Azaryah ,
his companions .
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In order that they might pray for mercy of the God of heaven concerning this secret :
so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon .
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Thereupon was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night .
Then did Daniel bless the God of heaven .
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Daniel commenced and said ,
May the name of God be blessed from eternity and to all eternity ;
for wisdom and might are his ;
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And he changeth times and seasons ;
he removeth kings ,
and raiseth up kings :
he giveth wisdom unto the wise ,
and knowledge to those that possess understanding .
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He it is that revealeth what is deep and secret ;
he knoweth what is in the darkness ,
and the light dwelleth with him .
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To thee ,
O God of my father ,
do I give thanks ,
and I praise thee ,
who hast given me wisdom and might ,
and because thou hast made known unto me what we prayed for of thee ;
for thou hast made known unto us the king
s matter .
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Therefore did Daniel go in unto Aryoch ,
whom the king had ordered to destroy the wise men of Babylon ,
He went and said thus unto him ,
the wise men of Babylon must thou not destroy :
bring me before the king ,
and I will tell unto the king the interpretation .
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Then did Aryoch bring Daniel before the king in haste ,
and thus he said unto him ,
Here have I found a man out of the children of the exiles of Judah ,
who will make known unto the king the interpretation .
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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 its interpretation ?
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Daniel answered in the presence of the king ,
and said ,
The secret which the king hath demanded no wise men ,
astrologers ,
magicians ,
or soothsayers ,
can tell unto the king ;
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But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets ,
and he hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what is to be in the latter days .
Thy dream ,
and the visions of thy head upon thy couch ,
were these .
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As for thee ,
O king ,
thy thoughts ,
when thou wast on thy couch ,
rose concerning what is to come to pass hereafter ;
and the Revealer of secrets hath made known to thee what is to come to pass .
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But as for me ,
this secret hath not been revealed to me because of any wisdom that is in me more than in all other living ;
but for the sake that men might make known the interpretation to the king ,
and that thou mightest understand the thoughts of thy heart .
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Thou ,
O king ,
sawest ,
and behold there was a large image ;
this image was mighty ,
and its brightness was excellent ;
it stood opposite to thee ;
and its form was fear
inspiring .
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As regardeth this image ,
its head was of fine gold ,
its breast and its arms were of silver ,
its belly and its thighs of copper ,
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Its legs of iron ,
its feet part of them of iron and part of them of clay .
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Thou didst look on till the moment that a stone tore itself loose ,
not through hands ,
and it struck the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay ,
and ground them to pieces .
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Then were the iron ,
the clay ,
the copper ,
the silver ,
and the gold ground up together ,
and became like the chaff of the summer threshing
floors ;
and the wind carried them away ,
that no trace was found of them ;
and the stone that had stricken the image became a mighty mountain ,
and filled the whole earth .
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This is the dream ;
and its interpretation will we relate before the king .
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Thou ,
O king ,
art a king of kings ,
to whom the God of heaven hath given kingdom ,
power ,
and strength ,
and honor :
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And wheresoever the children of men dwell ,
hath he given the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven into thy hand ,
and hath made thee ruler over them all .
Thou art the head of gold .
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And after thee there will arise another kingdom inferior to thee ;
and another third kingdom of copper ,
which will bear rule over all the earth .
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And the fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron ;
forasmuch as iron grindeth up and beateth down all things ,
and as iron that breaketh ,
will it grind up and break all these .
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And that thou sawest the feet and toes ,
and part of them of potter
s clay ,
and part of them of iron ,
that it will be a divided kingdom ,
although there will be in it of the strength of the iron ;
forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mingled with miry clay .
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And as the toes of the feet were part of them of iron ,
and part of them of clay :
so will the kingdom be partly strong and partly brittle .
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And whereas thou sawest iron mingled with miry clay :
so will they mingle themselves among the seed of men ;
but they will not cleave firmly one to another ,
even as iron cannot be mingled with clay .
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But in the days of these kings will the God of heaven set up a kingdom :
which shall to eternity not be destroyed ,
and its rule shall not be transferred to any other people ;
it will grind up and make an end of all these kingdoms ,
while it will itself endure for ever .
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Whereas thou sawest that out of the mountain a stone tore itself loose ,
not through hands ,
and that it ground up the iron ,
the copper ,
the clay ,
the silver ,
and the gold :
the great God hath made known to the king what is to come to pass after this .
And the dream is reliable ,
and its interpretation certain .
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Then did king Nebuchadnezzar fall upon his face ,
and he bowed down to Daniel ,
and ordered that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors unto him .
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The king answered unto Daniel ,
and said ,
Of a truth it is ,
that your God is the God of gods ,
and the Lord of kings ,
and the revealer of secrets ;
because thou hast been able to reveal this secret .
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Then did the king elevate Daniel ,
and gave him many great presents ,
and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon ,
and chief of the superintendents over all the wise men of Babylon .
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Then requested Daniel of the king ,
that he might appoint Shadrach ,
Meshach ,
and
Abed
nego ,
over the public service of the province of Babylon ;
but Daniel remained in the gate of the king .
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