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DAN 5:1
Daniel 5:1
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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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DAN 5:2
Daniel 5:2
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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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DAN 5:3
Daniel 5:3
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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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DAN 5:4
Daniel 5:4
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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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DAN 5:5
Daniel 5:5
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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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DAN 5:6
Daniel 5:6
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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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DAN 5:7
Daniel 5:7
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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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DAN 5:8
Daniel 5:8
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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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DAN 5:9
Daniel 5:9
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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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DAN 5:10
Daniel 5:10
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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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DAN 5:11
Daniel 5:11
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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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DAN 5:12
Daniel 5:12
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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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DAN 5:13
Daniel 5:13
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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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DAN 5:14
Daniel 5:14
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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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DAN 5:15
Daniel 5:15
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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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DAN 5:16
Daniel 5:16
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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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DAN 5:17
Daniel 5:17
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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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DAN 5:18
Daniel 5:18
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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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DAN 5:19
Daniel 5:19
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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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DAN 5:20
Daniel 5:20
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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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DAN 5:21
Daniel 5:21
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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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DAN 5:22
Daniel 5:22
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And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled
thine heart, though thou knewest all this; |
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DAN 5:23
Daniel 5:23
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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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DAN 5:24
Daniel 5:24
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Then was the part of the hand sent from him;
and this writing was written. |
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DAN 5:25
Daniel 5:25
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And this is the writing that was written, Mene,
Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. |
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DAN 5:26
Daniel 5:26
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This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene;
God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. |
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DAN 5:27
Daniel 5:27
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Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and
art found wanting. |
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DAN 5:28
Daniel 5:28
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Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to
the Medes and Persians. |
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DAN 5:29
Daniel 5:29
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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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DAN 5:30
Daniel 5:30
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In that night was Belshazzar the king of the
Chaldeans slain. |
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DAN 5:31
Daniel 5:31
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And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being
about threescore and two years old. |
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