Parallel Verses
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.
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
Daniel answered the king: Keep your gifts and give your rewards to another. I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
18
Cross References
Daniel 2:37-38
You, O king, are 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 decision is by the decree of the watchers. The sentence by the word of the holy ones! It is 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 over it the lowest of men.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave nations their inheritance, when he divided the descendants of Adam, he set up borders for the tribes corresponding to the number of the sons of Israel.
Psalm 7:17
I will give to Jehovah the thanks due to his righteousness. I will sing praise to the name of Jehovah, the Most High.
Psalm 9:2
I will be glad, rejoice and exult in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Psalm 47:2
For Jehovah the Most High is to be respected. He is a great King over all the earth.
Psalm 92:8
But you, O Jehovah, are highly honored forever.
Jeremiah 27:7
All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.
Lamentations 3:35
He turns away the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High.
Lamentations 3:38
Do not calamities and good things come from the mouth of the Most High?
Daniel 3:17-18
If it is so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the blazing furnace. He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
Daniel 4:2
It seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.
Daniel 4:22-25
It is you O king! You have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven. Your dominion is to the end of the earth.
Daniel 4:32
You will be driven from men. Your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You will have to eat grass like bulls. Seven times shall pass over you until you know the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
Daniel 6:22
My God sent his angel, and shut the lions' mouths. They did not hurt me. I was found innocent before him. I have done no wrong before you, O king.
Acts 7:48
The most High does not dwell in houses made with hands as the prophet says,
Acts 26:13
At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven. It was brighter than the sun and shinned all around me. It also shinned around those who journeyed with me.
Acts 26:19
You see, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.