Daniel:2:24-49
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Therefore Daniel went to Arioch ,
whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon .
He went and said thus to him : "
Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon ;
take me before the king ,
and I will tell the king the interpretation ."
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Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king ,
and said thus to him , "
I have found a man of the captives of Judah ,
who will make known to the king the interpretation ."
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The king answered and said to Daniel ,
whose name was Belteshazzar , "
Are you able to make known to 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 has demanded ,
the wise men ,
the astrologers ,
the magicians ,
and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king .
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But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets ,
and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days .
Your dream ,
and the visions of your head upon your bed ,
were these :
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As for you ,
O king ,
thoughts came to your mind while on your bed ,
about what would come to pass after this ;
and He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will be .
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But as for me ,
this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone living ,
but for our sakes who make known the interpretation to the king ,
and that you may know the thoughts of your heart .
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You ,
O king ,
were watching ;
and behold ,
a great image !
This great image ,
whose splendor was excellent ,
stood before you ;
and its form was awesome .
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This image '
s head was of fine gold ,
its chest and arms of silver ,
its belly and thighs of bronze ,
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its legs of iron ,
its feet partly of iron and partly of clay .
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You watched while a stone was cut out without hands ,
which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay ,
and broke them in pieces .
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Then the iron ,
the clay ,
the bronze ,
the silver ,
and the gold were crushed together ,
and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors ;
the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found .
And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth .
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This is the dream .
Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king .
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You ,
O king ,
are a king of kings .
For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom ,
power ,
strength ,
and glory ;
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and wherever the children of men dwell ,
or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven ,
He has given them into your hand ,
and has made you ruler over them all--you are this head of gold .
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But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours ;
then another ,
a third kingdom of bronze ,
which shall rule over all the earth .
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And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron ,
inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything ;
and like iron that crushes ,
that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others .
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Whereas you saw the feet and toes ,
partly of potter '
s clay and partly of iron ,
the kingdom shall be divided ;
yet the strength of the iron shall be in it ,
just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay .
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And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay ,
so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile .
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As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay ,
they will mingle with the seed of men ;
but they will not adhere to one another ,
just as iron does not mix with clay .
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And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed ;
and the kingdom shall not be left to other people ;
it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms ,
and it shall stand forever .
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Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands ,
and that it broke in pieces the iron ,
the bronze ,
the clay ,
the silver ,
and the gold--the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this .
The dream is certain ,
and its interpretation is sure ."
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Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face ,
prostrate before Daniel ,
and commanded that they should present an offering and incense to him .
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The king answered Daniel ,
and said , "
Truly your God is the God of gods ,
the Lord of kings ,
and a revealer of secrets ,
since you could reveal this secret ."
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Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts ;
and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon ,
and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon .
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Also Daniel petitioned the king ,
and he set Shadrach ,
Meshach ,
and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon ;
but Daniel sat in the gate of the king .
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