For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Parallel translations
- KJV For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- BSB This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- NKJV For this reason the king was angry and very furious, and gave the command to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- NASB Because of this, the king became angry and extremely furious, and he gave orders to kill all the wise men of Babylon.
- NLT The king was furious when he heard this, and he ordered that all the wise men of Babylon be executed.
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Enraged, the king orders all the wise men of Babylon destroyed. His fury endangers many lives.
Overview
The failure of his experts provokes a sweeping death sentence, displaying the peril of life under absolute power. The decree creates the crisis into which Daniel will step. Human wisdom's collapse becomes the occasion for God's deliverance.
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- Dan 3:13Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
- Dan 3:19Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
- Matt 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
- Ps 76:10Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
- Dan 2:5The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
- Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
- Prov 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
- Prov 27:3–4A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
- Prov 19:12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Prov 16:14The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
- Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
- Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
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