Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;

New American Standard Bible

O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

King James Version

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:

Holman Bible

Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, greatness, glory, and majesty to your predecessor Nebuchadnezzar.

International Standard Version

Your majesty, the Most High God gave your grandfather Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty, as well as greatness, glory, and splendor.

A Conservative Version

O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty.

American Standard Version

O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:

Amplified

O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty;

Bible in Basic English

As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:

Julia Smith Translation

Thou, O king, God most high gave a kingdom and greatness and honor and splendor to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:

King James 2000

O king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor:

Lexham Expanded Bible

{O king}, the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your {predecessor}.

Modern King James verseion

O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor:

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

The Emphasized Bible

As for thee, O king, the Most High God, gave, kingship and greatness and honour and majesty, unto Nebuchadnezzar thy father;

Webster

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor:

World English Bible

You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:

Youngs Literal Translation

thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
O thou
אנתּה 
'antah (Aramaic) 
thou, thee
Usage: 15

מלך 
melek (Aramaic) 
Usage: 180

the most high
עלּי 
`illay (Aramaic) 
Usage: 10

God
אלהּ 
'elahh (Aramaic) 
God, god
Usage: 95

יהב 
Y@hab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 28

נבוּכדנצּר 
N@buwkadnetstsar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 31

H2
אב 
'ab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 9

מלכוּ 
Malkuw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 57

and majesty
רבוּ 
R@buw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

and glory
יקר 
Y@qar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

God

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Daniel Deciphers And Interprets The Writing

17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet will I read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation. 18 O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty; 19 and for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, 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 exalted, and whom he would he humbled.

Cross References

Daniel 2:37-38

Thou, O king, art a king of kings, unto whom the God of the heavens hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

Daniel 4:17

This sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the word of the holy ones: that the living may know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

Psalm 7:17

I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.

Psalm 9:2

I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy name, O Most High.

Psalm 47:2

For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.

Psalm 92:8

And thou, Jehovah, art on high for evermore.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land also come, when many nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude.

Lamentations 3:35

to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

Lamentations 3:38

Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?

Daniel 3:17-18

If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king.

Daniel 4:2

It hath seemed good unto me to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.

Daniel 4:22-25

it is thou, O king, who art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

Daniel 4:32

and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

Daniel 6:22

My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocence was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

Acts 7:48

But the Most High dwells not in places made with hands; as says the prophet,

Acts 26:13

at mid-day, on the way, I saw, O king, a light above the brightness of the sun, shining from heaven round about me and those who were journeying with me.

Acts 26:19

Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;

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