Daniel:5-6
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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords ,
and drank wine before the thousand .
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Belshazzar ,
whiles he tasted the wine ,
commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ;
that the king ,
and his princes ,
his wives ,
and his concubines ,
might drink therein .
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Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem ;
and the king ,
and his princes ,
his wives ,
and his concubines ,
drank in them .
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They drank wine ,
and praised the gods of gold ,
and of silver ,
of brass ,
of iron ,
of wood ,
and of stone .
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In the same hour came forth fingers of a man '
s hand ,
and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king '
s palace :
and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote .
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Then the king '
s countenance was changed ,
and his thoughts troubled him ,
so that the joints of his loins were loosed ,
and his knees smote one against another .
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The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers ,
the Chaldeans ,
and the soothsayers .
And the king spake ,
and said to the wise men of Babylon ,
Whosoever shall read this writing ,
and shew me the interpretation thereof ,
shall be clothed with scarlet ,
and have a chain of gold about his neck ,
and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom .
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Then came in all the king '
s wise men :
but they could not read the writing ,
nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof .
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Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled ,
and his countenance was changed in him ,
and his lords were astonied .
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Now the queen ,
by reason of the words of the king and his lords ,
came into the banquet house :
and the queen spake and said ,
O king ,
live for ever :
let not thy thoughts trouble thee ,
nor let thy countenance be changed :
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There is a man in thy kingdom ,
in whom is the spirit of the holy gods ;
and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom ,
like the wisdom of the gods ,
was found in him ;
whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father ,
the king ,
I say ,
thy father ,
made master of the magicians ,
astrologers ,
Chaldeans ,
and soothsayers ;
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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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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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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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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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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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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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O thou king ,
the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom ,
and majesty ,
and glory ,
and honour :
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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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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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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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And thou his son ,
O Belshazzar ,
hast not humbled thine heart ,
though thou knewest all this ;
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But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven ;
and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee ,
and thou ,
and thy lords ,
thy wives ,
and thy concubines ,
have drunk wine in them ;
and thou hast praised the gods of silver ,
and gold ,
of brass ,
iron ,
wood ,
and stone ,
which see not ,
nor hear ,
nor know :
and the God in whose hand thy breath is ,
and whose are all thy ways ,
hast thou not glorified :
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Then was the part of the hand sent from him ;
and this writing was written .
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And this is the writing that was written ,
MENE ,
MENE ,
TEKEL ,
UPHARSIN .
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This is the interpretation of the thing :
MENE ;
God hath numbered thy kingdom ,
and finished it .
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TEKEL ;
Thou art weighed in the balances ,
and art found wanting .
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PERES ;
Thy kingdom is divided ,
and given to the Medes and Persians .
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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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In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain .
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And Darius the Median took the kingdom ,
being about threescore and two years old .
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It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes ,
which should be over the whole kingdom ;
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And over these three presidents ;
of whom Daniel was first :
that the princes might give accounts unto them ,
and the king should have no damage .
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Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes ,
because an excellent spirit was in him ;
and the king thought to set him over the whole realm .
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Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom ;
but they could find none occasion nor fault ;
forasmuch as he was faithful ,
neither was there any error or fault found in him .
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Then said these men ,
We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel ,
except we find it against him concerning the law of his God .
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Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king ,
and said thus unto him ,
King Darius ,
live for ever .
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All the presidents of the kingdom ,
the governors ,
and the princes ,
the counsellors ,
and the captains ,
have consulted together to establish a royal statute ,
and to make a firm decree ,
that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days ,
save of thee ,
O king ,
he shall be cast into the den of lions .
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Now ,
O king ,
establish the decree ,
and sign the writing ,
that it be not changed ,
according to the law of the Medes and Persians ,
which altereth not .
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Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree .
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Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed ,
he went into his house ;
and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem ,
he kneeled upon his knees three times a day ,
and prayed ,
and gave thanks before his God ,
as he did aforetime .
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Then these men assembled ,
and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God .
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Then they came near ,
and spake before the king concerning the king '
s decree ;
Hast thou not signed a decree ,
that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days ,
save of thee ,
O king ,
shall be cast into the den of lions ?
The king answered and said ,
The thing is true ,
according to the law of the Medes and Persians ,
which altereth not .
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Then answered they and said before the king ,
That Daniel ,
which is of the children of the captivity of Judah ,
regardeth not thee ,
O king ,
nor the decree that thou hast signed ,
but maketh his petition three times a day .
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Then the king ,
when he heard these words ,
was sore displeased with himself ,
and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him :
and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him .
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Then these men assembled unto the king ,
and said unto the king ,
Know ,
O king ,
that the law of the Medes and Persians is ,
That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed .
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Then the king commanded ,
and they brought Daniel ,
and cast him into the den of lions .
Now the king spake and said unto Daniel ,
Thy God whom thou servest continually ,
he will deliver thee .
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And a stone was brought ,
and laid upon the mouth of the den ;
and the king sealed it with his own signet ,
and with the signet of his lords ;
that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel .
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Then the king went to his palace ,
and passed the night fasting :
neither were instruments of musick brought before him :
and his sleep went from him .
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Then the king arose very early in the morning ,
and went in haste unto the den of lions .
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And when he came to the den ,
he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel :
and the king spake and said to Daniel ,
O Daniel ,
servant of the living God ,
is thy God ,
whom thou servest continually ,
able to deliver thee from the lions ?
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Then said Daniel unto the king ,
O king ,
live for ever .
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My 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 .
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Then was the king exceeding glad for him ,
and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den .
So Daniel was taken up out of the den ,
and no manner of hurt was found upon him ,
because he believed in his God .
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And the king commanded ,
and they brought those men which had accused Daniel ,
and they cast them into the den of lions ,
them ,
their children ,
and their wives ;
and the lions had the mastery of them ,
and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den .
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Then king Darius wrote unto all people ,
nations ,
and languages ,
that dwell in all the earth ;
Peace be multiplied unto you .
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I make a decree ,
That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel :
for he is the living God ,
and stedfast for ever ,
and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed ,
and his dominion shall be even unto the end .
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He delivereth and rescueth ,
and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth ,
who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions .
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So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius ,
and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian .
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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed :
then he wrote the dream ,
and told the sum of the matters .
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