Daniel 4:31

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Summary

While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

The word

Fell

Revelation 16:7

The kingdom

Daniel 5:28

1 Samuel 13:14

1 Samuel 15:23

Bible References

The word

They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

Fell

This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king:

And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him;

And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

The kingdom

Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.

For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.