Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor:
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.
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.
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 Daniel answered, and said before the king, "As for thy rewards, keep them to thyself, or give thy rich gifts to another: yet not the less, I will read the writing unto the king, and show him the interpretation thereof. 18 O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor: 19 So that all people, kindreds and tongues stood in awe and fear of him, by reason of the high estate that he had sent him. For why? He slew whom he would; he smote, whom it pleased him. Again: whom he would, he set up; and whom he list, he put down.
Cross References
Daniel 2:37-38
O king, thou art a king of kings: For the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, riches, strength, and majesty:
Daniel 4:17
This errand of the watcher, is a commandment grounded and sought out, in the counsel of him that is most holy: to learn men for to understand, that the highest hath power over the kingdoms of men; and giveth them to whom it liketh him, and bringeth the very outcasts of men over them.'
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most highest gave the nations an inheritance, and divided the sons of Adam, he put the borders of the nations fast by the multitude of the children of Israel.
Psalm 7:17
As for me, I will give thanks unto the LORD according to his righteousness; and I will praise the name of the LORD most high.
Psalm 9:2
I will be glad and rejoice in thee; yea, my songs will I make of thy name, O thou most highest.
Psalm 47:2
For the LORD is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth.
Psalm 92:8
But thou, LORD, art the most highest for evermore.
Jeremiah 27:7
And all people shall serve him, and his son, and his child's children, until the time of the same land be come also: Yea, many people and great kings shall serve him.
Lamentations 3:35
To move the judgment of man before the most highest.
Lamentations 3:38
out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?
Daniel 3:17-18
Our God whom we serve, is able to keep us from the hot burning oven, O king, and can right well deliver us out of thy hands:
Daniel 4:2
I thought it good to show the tokens and marvelous works that the high God hath wrought upon me.
Daniel 4:22-25
Even thou, O king, art the tree: great and strong. Thy greatness increaseth, and reacheth unto the heaven, so doth thy power to the ends of the earth.
Daniel 4:32
Thou shalt be cast out of men's company: thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, so that thou shalt eat grass like as an ox, till seven years be come and gone over thee: even until thou knowest, that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and that he may give them, unto whom it pleaseth him.'"
Daniel 6:22
My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions' mouths, so that they might not hurt me. For why? Mine unguiltiness is found out before him. And as for thee, O king, I never offended thee."
Acts 7:48
Howbeit, he that is highest of all dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,
Acts 26:13
even at mid day, o King, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shine round about me and them, which journeyed with me.
Acts 26:19
"Wherefore king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: