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 75:5–7Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
• Ps 31:14–15But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
• Ps 113:7–8He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
• Dan 4:17The sentence 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 rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
• Dan 7:25He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
• Jas 3:15–17This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
• Dan 4:32You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.”
• Job 34:24–29He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
• Prov 8:15–16By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
• 2 Chr 1:10–12Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
• Acts 13:21–22Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
• Luke 1:51–52He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• Job 12:18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
• 1 Kgs 4:29God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
• Jer 27:5–7‘I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
• Luke 21:15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
• 1 Sam 2:7–8Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
• Prov 2:6–7For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
• 1 Kgs 3:28All 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 justice.
• 1 Kgs 3:8–12Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or 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 kinds of workmanship,
• Dan 2:9But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.
• 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Chr 22:12May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your 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 10:24All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
• Eccl 3:1–8For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
• Exod 31:6Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
• Dan 11:6At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
• Rev 19:16He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
• Esth 1:13Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

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