Daniel 5:23

Belshazzar exalted himself against the Lord, defiling the temple vessels and praising lifeless idols, while ignoring the God who holds his life. His sin is named as defiant idolatry and ingratitude.

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• Job 12:10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
• Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Isa 37:23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 2:12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
• Jer 10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
• Job 31:4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
• Jer 50:29Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Prov 20:24Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
• Hab 2:18–19What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
• 2 Kgs 14:10Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
• Ps 139:3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
• Rom 1:21–23Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Heb 4:13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Dan 5:2–4Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
• Isa 37:19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
• Gen 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Judg 16:23Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
• Ps 135:15–17The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• 1 Tim 3:6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
• Hab 2:4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
• Isa 46:6–7They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
• Isa 33:10Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
• Ezek 28:17Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
• Ezek 28:5By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
• Ps 146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
• 1 Cor 8:4As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
• Rev 13:5–6And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
• Ezek 31:10Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
• Acts 17:25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
• 1 Sam 5:1–9And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
• Ps 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
• Acts 17:28–29For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Ezek 28:2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
• Ps 115:16The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
• Isa 42:5Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
• Gen 14:19And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
• Job 34:14–15If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

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