Daniel 2:21

God Reveals Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

²⁰ And Daniel spoke and said, Blessed be the name of God from age to age for wisdom and might are his; ²¹ “It is He who changes the times and the epochs;
He removes kings and establishes kings;
He gives wisdom to wise men
And knowledge to men of understanding.
²² He reveals that which is deep and hidden; he knows what is in darkness, and the light dwells with him.

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Daniel 7:25

And he shall speak great words against the most High and shall break down the saints of the most High and think to move the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the half or dividing of a time.

Job 12:18

He looses the bond of kings and girds their loins with a girdle.

Daniel 2:9

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you for ye certainly prepare lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time is changed; therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me its interpretation.

Daniel 4:17

By sentence of the watchmen is the matter resolved, and the case by the word of the holy ones to the intent that the living may know that the most High takes rule over the kingdom of men and gives it to whoever he will and sets up over it the man who is the lowest.

James 1:5

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let them ask of God (who gives abundantly to all, and without reproach), and it shall be given them.

1 Kings 4:29

And God gave Solomon exceedingly great wisdom and intelligence and magnanimity of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

Daniel 4:32

and they drive thee from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall feed thee as the oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee until thou know that the most High takes rule in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will.

Exodus 31:3

and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and in intelligence and in science and in all manner of workmanship,

Exodus 31:6

And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the desire of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom that they may make all that I have commanded thee:

1 Samuel 2:7-8

The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and lifts up.

1 Kings 3:8-12

And thy slave is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

1 Kings 3:28

And all Israel heard of that judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to judge.

1 Kings 10:24

And all the earth sought to see the face of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding and give thee commandments for Israel, and that thou keep the law of the LORD thy God.

1 Chronicles 29:30

with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him and over Israel and over all the kingdoms of the lands.

2 Chronicles 1:10-12

Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

Esther 1:13

Then the king asked the wise men, who knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew about the law and rights,

Job 34:24-29

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their stead.

Psalm 31:14-15

But I trusted in thee, O LORD; I said, Thou art my God.

Psalm 75:5-7

Do not lift up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck.

Psalm 113:7-8

He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts the destitute out of the dunghill;

Proverbs 2:6-7

For the LORD gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and intelligence.

Proverbs 8:15-16

By me the kings reign, and the princes decree justice.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

For all things there is a season, and every will under the heaven has its time determined.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom was upright in my eyes.

Daniel 11:6

But at the end of some years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; for she shall be given up and those that brought her and he that begat her, and those that were for her in this time.

Luke 1:51-52

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

Acts 13:21-22

And afterward they asked for a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him ye are reborn in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning.

James 3:15-17

This wisdom is not that which descends from above, but is earthly, natural, diabolical.

Revelation 19:16

And he has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.