Daniel 5:18

Daniel reminds Belshazzar that the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar his kingdom, greatness, and glory. He grounds his message in God's sovereignty over kings.

Cross-references · 18

• Dan 2:37–38Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
• 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 4:22–25It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
• Deut 32:8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
• Dan 6:22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
• Ps 47:2For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
• Dan 3:17–18If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
• Jer 27:7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
• 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.
• Ps 7:17I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
• Acts 26:19Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
• Dan 4:2I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
• Lam 3:38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
• Acts 7:48Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
• Lam 3:35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
• Ps 92:8But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
• Acts 26:13At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
• Ps 9:2I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

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