All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
Parallel translations
- WEB All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.
- BSB All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.
- ESV All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.
- NKJV All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.
- NASB “All of this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king.
- NLT “But all these things did happen to King Nebuchadnezzar.
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Quick answer
"All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar." The warning was not heeded, and the judgment fell.
Overview
The narrator confirms that everything Daniel foretold came to pass. The king's failure to repent over the following year brought the decreed humbling. The verse underscores the certainty of God's word: what he declares will surely happen.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- Zech 1:6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
- Prov 10:24The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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