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 2:37–38You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
• 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 4:22–25it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
• Deut 32:8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
• Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
• Ps 47:2For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
• Dan 3:17–18If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
• Jer 27:7All the nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
• 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.”
• Ps 7:17I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
• Acts 26:19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
• Dan 4:2It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
• Lam 3:38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
• Acts 7:48However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
• Lam 3:35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
• Ps 92:8But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
• Acts 26:13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
• Ps 9:2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

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