Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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.

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:

Darby Translation

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

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. Nevertheless I will 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 because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he wanted, he killed, and whom he wanted, he kept alive, and whom he wanted, he raised up, and whom he want


Cross References

Daniel 2:37-38

Thou, O king, are a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory.

Daniel 4:17

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over i

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

Psalm 7:17

I will give thanks to LORD according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of LORD Most High.

Psalm 9:2

I will be glad and exult in thee. I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

Psalm 47:2

For LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

Psalm 92:8

but thou, O LORD, are 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 own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.

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 does there not come 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 has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has wrought toward me.

Daniel 4:22-25

it is thou, O king, who have grown and become strong. For thy greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

Daniel 4:32

And thou shall be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Thou shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of me

Daniel 6:22

My God has sent his [heavenly] agent, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before him innocence was found in me. And also before thee, O king, I have done no harm.

Acts 7:48

However the Most High does not dwell in man-made temples, just as the prophet says,

Acts 26:13

at midday, O king, I saw on the road a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, which shone around me and those who went with me.

Acts 26:19

Whereupon, king Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision,

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