Daniel 4:35

The king confesses that all peoples are as nothing before God, who does as he wills and cannot be resisted. He proclaims God's absolute sovereignty.

Cross-references · 35

• Job 42:2“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
• Ps 135:6Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
• Ps 115:3But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
• Rom 11:33–36Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
• Isa 43:13Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
• Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
• Isa 40:15–17Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
• Matt 11:25–26At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
• Acts 4:28to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
• Rom 9:19–20You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
• Job 34:14–15If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
• Isa 45:9–11Woe to him who strives with his Maker — a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
• Ps 33:8–11Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
• 1 Cor 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
• 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• Job 40:2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
• Job 23:13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
• Job 9:12–13Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
• Job 34:19–24Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
• Job 9:4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
• Job 33:12–13“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
• Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
• 1 Sam 3:18Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”
• Job 40:9–12Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
• Phil 2:10–11that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
• Acts 5:39But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”
• Isa 14:24–27Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Prov 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
• Acts 9:5He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
• Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
• Ps 49:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
• Isa 40:22–24It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
• Ps 33:14From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
• Acts 11:17If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

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