These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Daniel 2
Tanakh 49 verses
- 1 And in the second year of the reign of dreamed dreams; and his was troubled, and his sleep broke from him.
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Then the commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the his dreams. So they came and stood before the .
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And the said unto them: ‘I have dreamed a dream, and my is troubled to the dream.’
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- 4 Then spoke the Chaldeans to the in Aramaic: ‘O , live for ever! tell thy servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation.’
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The answered and said to the Chaldeans: ‘The thing is certain with me; if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
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But if ye declare the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great ; only declare unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof.’
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They answered the second time and said: ‘Let the tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation.’
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The answered and said: ‘I of a that ye would gain time, inasmuch as ye see the thing is certain with me,
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- 9 that, if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but one for you; and ye have agreed together to speak before me lying and corrupt words, till the time be changed; only tell me the dream, and I shall that ye can declare unto me the interpretation thereof.’
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The Chaldeans answered before the , and said: ‘There is not a man upon the earth that can declare the king’s matter; forasmuch as no great and powerful hath asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
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And it is a hard thing that the asketh, and there is none other that can declare it before the , except the Elohims, whose dwelling is not with .’
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- 12 For this cause the was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of .
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So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought and his companions to be slain.
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Then returned answer with counsel and discretion to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise men of ;
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- 15 he answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain: ‘Wherefore is the decree so peremptory from the ?’ Then Arioch made the thing known to .
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Then went in, and desired of the that he would give him time, that he might declare unto the the interpretation.
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Then went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions;
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- 18 that they might ask of the of concerning this secret; that and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of .
- 19 Then was the secret revealed unto in a of the night. Then blessed the of .
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spoke and said: Blessed be the of From even unto ; For wisdom and might are His;
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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 understanding;
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Daniel 7:25 James 1:5 Job 12:18 Daniel 2:9 Daniel 4:17 1 Kings 4:29 Daniel 4:32 James 1:17 2 Chronicles 1:10-12 James 3:15-17 Job 34:24-29 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Psalm 75:5-7 Revelation 19:16 1 Chronicles 22:12 1 Corinthians 1:30 Proverbs 8:15-16 Psalm 113:7-8 Jeremiah 27:5-7 Acts 13:21-22 1 Kings 10:24 Luke 1:51-52 Esther 1:13 Psalm 31:14-15 1 Chronicles 29:30 Luke 21:15 1 Kings 3:8-12 Exodus 31:3 Proverbs 2:6-7 1 Samuel 2:7-8 1 Kings 3:28 Daniel 11:6 Exodus 31:6 -
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He revealeth the deep and secret things; He knoweth what is in the darkness, And the light dwelleth with Him.
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I thank Thee, and Thee, O Thou of my fathers, Who hast given me wisdom and might, And hast now made known unto me what we desired of Thee; For Thou hast made known unto us the king’s matter.
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Daniel 2:18 Exodus 3:15 Daniel 2:29-30 Daniel 2:20-21 Amos 3:7 Luke 10:21 Matthew 11:25 Daniel 1:17 Psalm 25:14 2 Chronicles 20:6 Genesis 18:17 Ecclesiastes 7:19 1 Kings 18:36 Revelation 1:1 1 Chronicles 29:10 Psalm 50:14 Proverbs 24:5 Ecclesiastes 9:18 1 Chronicles 29:13 Revelation 5:5 Psalm 103:1-4 Proverbs 8:14 John 11:41 Genesis 32:9-11 John 15:15 1 Kings 8:57 Ecclesiastes 9:16 Isaiah 12:1 Proverbs 21:22 -
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Therefore went in unto Arioch, whom the had appointed to destroy the wise men of ; he went and said thus unto him: ‘Destroy not the wise men of ; bring me in before the , and I will declare unto the the interpretation.’
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Then Arioch brought in before the in haste, and said thus unto him: ‘I have found a man of the children of the captivity of , that will make known unto the the interpretation.’
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The spoke and said to , whose was Belteshazzar: ‘Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?’
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answered before the , and said: ‘The secret which the hath asked can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers, declare unto the ;
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but there is a in that revealeth secrets, and He hath made known to the what shall be in the end of days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:
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Daniel 10:14 Genesis 49:1 Genesis 40:8 Genesis 41:16 Daniel 4:5 Amos 4:13 Isaiah 2:2 Hosea 3:5 Micah 4:1-2 Jeremiah 30:24 Hebrews 1:1 Deuteronomy 31:19 Jeremiah 48:47 Deuteronomy 4:30 Psalm 115:3 Matthew 6:9 Ezekiel 38:16 Isaiah 41:22-23 Daniel 2:18 2 Peter 3:3 Daniel 2:47 Ezekiel 38:8 2 Timothy 3:1 Numbers 24:14 Daniel 2:22 -
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as for thee, O , thy thoughts came [into thy mind] upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and He that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.
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- 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the , and that thou mayest the thoughts of thy .
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Thou, O , sawest, and behold a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was surpassing, stood before thee; and the appearance thereof was terrible.
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As for that image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
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its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.
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Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.
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Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so 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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Isaiah 2:2-3 Psalm 37:10 Hosea 13:3 Isaiah 41:15-16 Psalm 37:36 Revelation 20:11 1 Corinthians 15:25 Psalm 72:16-19 Psalm 67:1-2 Isaiah 11:9 Job 6:17 Revelation 20:2-3 Isaiah 17:13-14 Revelation 11:15 Psalm 103:16 Micah 4:1-2 Psalm 22:27 Zechariah 14:8-9 Revelation 12:8 Psalm 86:9 Psalm 66:4 Micah 4:13 Psalm 1:4-5 Psalm 80:9-10 Psalm 46:9 -
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This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the .
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Thou, O , of kings, unto whom the of hath given the , the power, and the strength, and the ;
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and wheresoever the children of men, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the dwell, hath He given them into thy hand, and hath made thee to rule over them all; thou art the head of gold.
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- 39 And after thee shall arise another inferior to thee; and another third of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
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And the fourth shall be strong as iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and beateth down all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.
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And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided ; but there shall be in it of the firmness of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
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And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so part of the shall be strong, and part thereof broken.
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- 43 And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves by the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay.
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And in the days of those kings shall the of set up a , which shall never be destroyed; nor shall the be left to another people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, but it shall stand for ever.
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Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great hath made known to the what shall come to pass hereafter; and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.’
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Then the fell upon his , and worshipped , and commanded that they should offer an and sweet odours unto him.
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The spoke unto , and said: ‘Of a it is, that your is the of Elohims, and of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou hast been able to reveal this secret.’
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Deuteronomy 10:17 Daniel 11:36 Psalm 136:2 Amos 3:7 Daniel 2:22 Daniel 2:28 Revelation 17:14 Revelation 19:16 1 Timothy 6:15 Daniel 2:19 Proverbs 8:15-16 Psalm 82:1 Job 12:19 Joshua 22:22 Psalm 2:10-11 Genesis 41:39 Daniel 4:17 Psalm 72:11 Daniel 2:37 Revelation 1:5 Daniel 4:25 Daniel 4:32 Daniel 4:8-9 - 48 Then the made great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of , and to be chief prefect over all the wise men of .
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And requested of the , and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of ; but was in the gate of the .
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