Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
New American Standard Bible
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,
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.
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:
Themes
Daniel » Jewish captive » Courage and fidelity of
Government » God setting up and removing kings
Honour » Examples of » From God
Ingratitude to God » Exemplified » Nebuchadnezzar
Pride/arrogance » The reward for pride
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Daniel, of belshazzar
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Daniel 5:18
Verse Info
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 unto 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 would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
Cross References
Daniel 2:37-38
Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven hath 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 ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the lowest of men.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
Psalm 7:17
I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah 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 Jehovah Most High is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.
Psalm 92:8
But thou, O 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 own land come: 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 cometh there not 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 show the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.
Daniel 4:22-25
it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Daniel 4:32
and thou shalt be driven from men; and they dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over thee; until thou know that the Most High ruleth in 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, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Acts 7:48
Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 26:13
at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.
Acts 26:19
Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: