'Forever' in the Bible

The wise men replied to the king: [What follows is in Aramaic] "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will disclose its interpretation."

saying, "Let the name of God be praised forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to him.

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!

"How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom will last forever, and his authority continues from one generation to the next."

But at the end of the appointed time I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me. I extolled the Most High, and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever. For his authority is an everlasting authority, and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

Due to the noise caused by the king and his nobles, the queen mother then entered the banquet room. She said, "O king, live forever! Don't be alarmed! Don't be shaken!

So these supervisors and satraps came by collusion to the king and said to him, "O King Darius, live forever!

Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever!

I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel. "For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.

The holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will take possession of the kingdom forever and ever.'

But the court will convene, and his ruling authority will be removed -- destroyed and abolished forever!

But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.

Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky and made an oath by the one who lives forever: "It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished."