Daniel 2:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 know understanding:

He changeth

He removeth

He giveth

General references

Job 12:18

Bible References

He changeth

for if you [do] not make the dream known to me, {your verdict is fixed}, and you have conspired to say lying and deceitful word to me until the {circumstances} will change. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me its explanation."

And he will speak words against the Most High, and he will wear out [the] holy ones of the Most High, and he will attempt to change times and law, and they will be given into his hand for a time and two times and half a time.

And at [the] end of [some] years they will make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a peace treaty, but {she will not retain her position of power}, and his offspring will not endure, and she will be given up, she and her attendants and her child supporting her, in those times.

with all [the accounts of] his kingdom, his power, and the times that came upon him, and upon Israel, and upon all the kingdoms of the earth.

And the king said to the wise men, {the ones who know the times}--for it [was] the procedure of the king before all those who knew law and rights;

He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place.

But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh. I say, "You [are] my God."

For everything there [is] an appointed time, a time for every matter under heaven:

"I have made the earth with humankind and animals that [are] on the face of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whomever is right in my eyes.

He removeth

The sentence [is] by [the] decree of [the] watchers, and the decision [by] [the] command of [the] holy [ones], {in order that} the living will know that the Most High [is] sovereign over [the] kingdom of humankind, and {to whomever} he wills he gives it, and he [even] sets [the] humblest of men over it."

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts.

He loosens [the] fetters of kings, and he binds a loincloth on their loins.

Do not lift up high your horn. Do [not] speak with {arrogant pride}.'"

[He] raises [the] helpless from [the] dust; he lifts [the] needy from [the] ash heap,

By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness.

He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has dispersed the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, [for] forty years.

And he has a name written on his outer garment and on his thigh: "King of kings and Lord of lords."

He giveth

And I have filled him [with] the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill and with knowledge and with every [kind of] craftsmanship,

Your servant [is] in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.

God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as {breadth of understanding}, as the sand which is on the edge of the seashore.

All of the earth [was] seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God.

Now, give to me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this, your great people?"

For Yahweh will give wisdom; from his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all your opponents will not be able to resist or contradict.

But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

General references

He loosens [the] fetters of kings, and he binds a loincloth on their loins.