“But all these things did happen to King Nebuchadnezzar.
Parallel translations
- WEB All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.
- KJV All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
- BSB All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.
- NKJV All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.
- NASB “All of this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king.
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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, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
- Zech 1:6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
- Prov 10:24What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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