Daniel 2:21

God changes times and seasons, removes and sets up kings, and gives wisdom. He alone rules history and grants understanding.

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• Ps 75:5–7Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
• Ps 31:14–15But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
• Ps 113:7–8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
• Dan 4:17This matter 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 basest of men.
• Dan 7:25And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
• Jas 3:15–17This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
• Dan 4:32And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee 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.
• Job 34:24–29He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
• Prov 8:15–16By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
• 2 Chr 1:10–12Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
• Acts 13:21–22And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
• Luke 1:51–52He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• Job 12:18He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
• 1 Kgs 4:29And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
• Jer 27:5–7I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
• Luke 21:15For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
• 1 Sam 2:7–8The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
• Prov 2:6–7For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Jas 1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
• 1 Kgs 3:28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
• 1 Kgs 3:8–12And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
• Exod 31:3And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
• Dan 2:9But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
• 1 Cor 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Chr 22:12Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
• 1 Chr 29:30With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
• 1 Kgs 10:24And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
• Eccl 3:1–8To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
• Exod 31:6And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
• Dan 11:6And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
• Rev 19:16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
• Esth 1:13Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

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