Daniel 4:30

God Judges The King For His Hubris

²⁹ After twelve months, he happened to be walking around on the battlements of the royal palace of Babylon. ³⁰ The king uttered these words: "Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?" ³¹ While these words were still on the king's lips, a voice came down from heaven: "It is hereby announced to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you!

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Isaiah 37:24-25

Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 'With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.

Genesis 10:10

The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 11:2-9

When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

1 Chronicles 29:12-14

You are the source of wealth and honor; you rule over all. You possess strength and might to magnify and give strength to all.

2 Chronicles 2:5-6

I will build a great temple, for our God is greater than all gods.

Esther 1:4

He displayed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor of his majestic greatness for a lengthy period of time -- a hundred and eighty days, to be exact!

Psalm 49:20

Wealthy people do not understand; they are like animals that perish.

Psalm 73:8

They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

Psalm 104:1

Praise the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are magnificent. You are robed in splendor and majesty.

Psalm 145:5-12

I will focus on your honor and majestic splendor, and your amazing deeds!

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Isaiah 10:8-15

Indeed, he says: "Are not my officials all kings?

Ezekiel 28:2-5

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas" -- yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.

Ezekiel 29:3

Tell them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, "My Nile is my own, I made it for myself."

Daniel 5:18-20

As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

Habakkuk 1:15-16

The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.

Habakkuk 2:4-5

Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.

Luke 12:19-20

And I will say to myself, "You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!"'

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

1 Corinthians 10:31

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Revelation 16:19

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God's furious wrath.

Revelation 17:5

On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: "Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth."

Revelation 18:10

They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say, "Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!"

Revelation 18:21

Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said, "With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!

Revelation 21:24-26

The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.