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Selected Verse: Daniel 5:18 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Da 5:18 |
Strong Concordance |
O thou [0607] king [04430], the most high [05943] God [0426] gave [03052] Nebuchadnezzar [05020] thy father [02] a kingdom [04437], and majesty [07238], and glory [03367], and honour [01923]: |
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King James |
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
God gave--It was not his own birth or talents which gave him the vast empire, as he thought. To make him unlearn his proud thought was the object of God's visitation on him.
majesty--in the eyes of his subjects.
glory--from his victories.
honour--from the enlargement and decoration of the city. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom ... - This reference to Nebuchadnezzar is evidently designed to show to Belshazzar the wickedness of his own course, and the reason which he had to apprehend the Divine vengeance, because he had not learned to avoid the sins which brought so great calamities upon his predecessor. As he was acquainted with what had occurred to Nebuchadnezzar; as he had doubtless seen the proclamation which he had made on his recovery from the dreadful malady which God had brought upon him for his pride; and as he had not humbled himself, but had pursued the same course which Nebuchadnezzar did, he had the greater reason to apprehend the judgment of heaven. See Dan 5:22-23. Daniel here traces all the glory which Nebuchadnezzar had to "the most high God," reminding the king that whatever honor and majesty he had he was equally indebted for it to the same source, and that he must expect a similar treatment from him. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Nebuchadnezzar thy father - Or grandfather, as the margin reads, Dan 5:2. See the notes on Dan 5:1 (note). |
22 And thou [0607] his son [01247], O Belshazzar [01113], hast not [03809] humbled [08214] thine heart [03825], though [06903] thou knewest [03046] all [03606] this [01836];
23 But hast lifted up [07313] thyself against [05922] the Lord [04756] of heaven [08065]; and they have brought [0858] the vessels [03984] of his house [01005] before [06925] thee, and thou [0607], and thy lords [07261], thy wives [07695], and thy concubines [03904], have drunk [08355] wine [02562] in them; and thou hast praised [07624] the gods [0426] of silver [03702], and gold [01722], of brass [05174], iron [06523], wood [0636], and stone [069], which see [02370] not [03809], nor [03809] hear [08086], nor [03809] know [03046]: and the God [0426] in whose hand [03028] thy breath [05396] is, and whose are all [03606] thy ways [0735], hast thou not [03809] glorified [01922]:
1 Belshazzar [01113] the king [04430] made [05648] a great [07229] feast [03900] to a thousand [0506] of his lords [07261], and drank [08355] wine [02562] before [06903] the thousand [0506].
2 Belshazzar [01113], whiles he tasted [02942] the wine [02562], commanded [0560] to bring [0858] the golden [01722] and silver [03702] vessels [03984] which his father [02] Nebuchadnezzar [05020] had taken [05312] out of [04481] the temple [01965] which was in Jerusalem [03390]; that the king [04430], and his princes [07261], his wives [07695], and his concubines [03904], might drink [08355] therein.