Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life,
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and
today we're be reading
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in the book of Daniel
together but first lets pray,
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Dear Heavenly
Father thank you so much
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for this opportunity
to read theses stories
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that show us so much of
your greatness please ah,
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quiet our minds to
any distractions right now
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and maybe see your glory
in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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We're coming to
the end of the story
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in Daniel Chapter 4
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as narrated by
King of Nebuchadnezzar
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he is telling about how he
became as a beast of the field
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because he had setting his heart
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that Babylon was a
kingdom that he have made
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and the God of
heaven humbled him
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and at the end of
that at the conclusion
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that Nebuchadnezzar
recognizes the most high God
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as a creator of everything
and the giver of kingdoms.
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We're picking up in the
middle of Nebuchadnezzar's
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final
declaration of understanding
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beginning in
Daniel 4 with verse 35
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and this is a
King James Version.
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And all the inhabitants
of the earth are reputed
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as nothing, and he
doeth according to his will
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in the army of heaven,
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and among the
inhabitants of the earth,
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and none can stay his hand,
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or say unto
him, What doest thou?
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At the same time my
reason returned unto me,
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and for the glory of my kingdom,
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mine honour and
brightness returned unto me,
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and my counsellors and
my lords sought unto me,
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and I was
established in my kingdom,
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and excellent
majesty was added unto me.
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Now I
Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol
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and honour the King of heaven,
all whose works are truth,
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and his ways judgment,
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and those that walk in
pride he is able to abase.
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Continuing with Daniel Chapter 5
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Belshazzar the
king made a great feast
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to a thousand of his lords,
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and drank wine
before the thousand.
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Belshazzar, whiles
he tasted the wine,
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commanded to bring the golden
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and silver
vessels which his father
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Nebuchadnezzar had
taken out of the temple
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which was in Jerusalem,
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that the king, and his princes,
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his wives, and his
concubines, might drink therein.
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Then they brought
the golden vessels
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that were taken
out of the temple
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of the house of God
which was at Jerusalem,
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and the king, and his princes,
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his wives, and his
concubines, drank in them.
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They drank wine, and
praised the gods of gold,
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and of silver, of brass,
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of iron, of wood, and of stone.
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In the same hour came
forth fingers of a man's hand,
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and wrote over
against the candlestick
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upon the plaister of the
wall of the king's palace,
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and the king saw the
part of the hand that wrote.
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Then the king's
countenance was changed,
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and his thoughts troubled him,
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so that the joints of
his loins were loosed,
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and his knees smote
one against another.
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The king cried aloud to
bring in the astrologers,
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the Chaldeans,
and the soothsayers.
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And the king spake, and
said to the wise men of Babylon,
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Whosoever shall
read this writing,
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and shew me the
interpretation thereof,
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shall be clothed with scarlet,
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and have a chain of
gold about his neck,
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and shall be the
third ruler in the kingdom.
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Then came in all
the king's wise men,
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but they could
not read the writing,
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nor make known to the king
the interpretation thereof.
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Then was king
Belshazzar greatly troubled,
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and his
countenance was changed in him,
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and his lords were astonied.
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Now the queen, by
reason of the words of the king
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and his lords, came
into the banquet house,
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and the queen spake and
said, O king, live for ever,
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let not thy
thoughts trouble thee,
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nor let thy
countenance be changed.
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There is a man in thy kingdom,
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in whom is the
spirit of the holy gods,
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and in the days
of thy father light
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and understanding and wisdom,
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like the wisdom of the
gods, was found in him,
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whom the king
Nebuchadnezzar thy father,
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the king, I say, thy father,
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made master of the magicians,
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astrologers,
Chaldeans, and soothsayers.
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For as much as
an excellent spirit,
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and knowledge,
and understanding,
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interpreting of dreams,
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and shewing of hard sentences,
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and dissolving of doubts,
were found in the same Daniel,
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whom the king
named Belteshazzar,
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now let Daniel be called,
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and he will shew
the interpretation.
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Then was Daniel
brought in before the king.
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And the king spake
and said unto Daniel,
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Art thou that Daniel,
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which art of the children
of the captivity of Judah,
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whom the king my
father brought out of Jewry?
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I have even heard of thee,
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that the spirit of
the gods is in thee,
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and that light and understanding
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and excellent
wisdom is found in thee.
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And now the wise
men, the astrologers,
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have been brought in before me,
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that they should
read this writing,
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and make known unto me
the interpretation thereof,
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but they could not
show the interpretation
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of the thing, And
I have heard of thee,
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that thou canst
make interpretations,
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and dissolve doubts,
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now if thou
canst read the writing,
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and make known to me
the interpretation thereof,
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thou shalt be
clothed with scarlet,
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and have a chain of
gold about thy neck,
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and shalt be the
third ruler in the kingdom.
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Then Daniel answered
and said before the king,
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Let thy gifts be to thyself,
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and give thy rewards to another,
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yet I will read the
writing unto the king,
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and make known to
him the interpretation.
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O thou king, the most
high God gave Nebuchadnezzar
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thy father a
kingdom, and majesty,
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and glory, and honour,
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And for the
majesty that he gave him,
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all people,
nations, and languages,
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trembled and feared before him,
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whom he would he slew,
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and whom he would he kept alive,
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and whom he would he set up,
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and whom he would he put down.
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But when his
heart was lifted up,
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and his mind hardened in pride,
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he was deposed
from his kingly throne,
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and they took
his glory from him.
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And he was driven
from the sons of men,
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and his heart was
made like the beasts,
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and his dwelling
was with the wild asses,
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they fed him
with grass like oxen,
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and his body was wet
with the dew of heaven,
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till he knew
that the most high God
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ruled in the kingdom of men,
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and that he appointeth
over it whomsoever he will.
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And thou his son, O Belshazzar,
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hast not humbled thine heart,
though thou knewest all this.
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But hast lifted up thyself
against the Lord of heaven,
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and they have brought
the vessels of his house
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before thee, and
thou, and thy lords,
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thy wives, and thy concubines,
have drunk wine in them,
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and thou hast praised
the gods of silver, and gold,
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of brass, iron, wood, and stone,
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which see not,
nor hear, nor know,
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and the God in
whose hand thy breath is,
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and whose are all thy
ways, hast thou not glorified.
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Then was the part of
the hand sent from him,
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and this writing was written.
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And this is the
writing that was written,
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mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.
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This is the interpretation
of the thing, mene,
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God hath numbered thy
kingdom, and finished it.
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tekel, Thou art
weighed in the balances,
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and art found wanting.
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peres, Thy kingdom is divided,
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and given to the
Medes and Persians.
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Then commanded Belshazzar,
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and they clothed
Daniel with scarlet,
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and put a chain of
gold about his neck,
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and made a
proclamation concerning him,
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that he should be the
third ruler in the kingdom.
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In that night was Belshazzar
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the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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And Darius the
Median took the kingdom,
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being about
threescore and two years old.
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Continuing in Daniel Chapter 6
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this is the King James Version.
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It pleased Darius to set
over the kingdom an hundred
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and twenty princes,
which should be over
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the whole kingdom, And
over these three presidents,
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of whom Daniel was first,
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that the princes might
give accounts unto them,
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and the king
should have no damage.
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Then this Daniel was preferred
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above the
presidents and princes,
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because an
excellent spirit was in him,
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and the king thought to
set him over the whole realm.
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Then the presidents and princes
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sought to find
occasion against Daniel
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concerning the kingdom,
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but they could find
none occasion nor fault,
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forasmuch as he was faithful,
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neither was there any
error or fault found in him.
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Then said these men,
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We shall not find any
occasion against this Daniel,
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except we find it against him
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concerning the law of his God.
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Then these
presidents and princes
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assembled together to the king,
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and said thus unto him,
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King Darius, live for ever.
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All the
presidents of the kingdom,
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the governors, and the princes,
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the counsellors,
and the captains,
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have consulted together
to establish a royal statute,
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and to make a firm decree,
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that whosoever shall
ask a petition of any God
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or man for thirty
days, save of thee, O king,
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he shall be cast
into the den of lions.
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Now, O king,
establish the decree,
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and sign the writing,
that it be not changed,
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according to
the law of the Medes
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and Persians,
which altereth not.
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Wherefore king Darius signed
the writing and the decree.
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Now when Daniel knew
that the writing was signed,
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he went into his house,
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and his windows being open
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in his chamber toward Jerusalem,
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he kneeled upon his
knees three times a day,
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and prayed, and gave
thanks before his God,
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as he did aforetime.
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Then these men assembled,
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and found Daniel praying
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and making
supplication before his God.
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Then they came near,
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and spake before the king
concerning the king's decree,
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Hast thou not signed a decree,
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that every man that
shall ask a petition of any God
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or man within
thirty days, save of thee,
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O king, shall be cast
into the den of lions?
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The king answered and said,
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The thing is true, according
to the law of the Medes
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and Persians,
which altereth not.
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Then answered they
and said before the king,
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That Daniel,
which is of the children
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of the captivity of
Judah, regardeth not the,
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O king, nor the
decree that thou hast signed,
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but maketh his
petition three times a day.
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Then the king, when
he heard these words,
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was sore
displeased with himself,
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and set his heart on
Daniel to deliver him,
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and he laboured
till the going down
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of the sun to deliver him.
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Then these men
assembled unto the king,
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and said unto the king, Know,
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O king, that the law of
the Medes and Persians is,
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That no decree nor
statute which the king
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establisheth may be changed.
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Then the king commanded,
and they brought Daniel,
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and cast him
into the den of lions.
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Now the king spake
and said unto Daniel,
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Thy God whom thou
servest continually,
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he will deliver thee.
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And a stone was brought,
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and laid upon
the mouth of the den,
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and the king sealed
it with his own signet,
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and with the
signet of his lords,
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that the purpose might not
be changed concerning Daniel.
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Then the king
went to his palace,
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and passed the night fasting,
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neither were instruments
of musick brought before him,
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and his sleep went from him.
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Then the king arose
very early in the morning,
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and went in haste
unto the den of lions.
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And when he came to the den,
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he cried with a
lamentable voice unto Daniel,
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and the king spake
and said to Daniel,
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O Daniel, servant
of the living God,
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is thy God, whom
thou servest continually,
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able to deliver
thee from the lions?
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Then said Daniel unto the king,
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O king, live for ever.
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My God hath sent his angel,
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and hath shut the lions' mouths,
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that they have not hurt me,
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forasmuch as before him
innocency was found in me,
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and also before thee, O
king, have I done no hurt.
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Then was the king
exceeding glad for him,
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and commanded that they should
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take Daniel up out of the den.
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So Daniel was
taken up out of the den,
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and no manner of
hurt was found upon him,
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because he believed in his God.
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And the king commanded,
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and they brought those
men which had accused Daniel,
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and they cast them
into the den of lions,
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them, their
children, and their wives,
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and the lions had
the mastery of them,
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and brake all
their bones in pieces
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or ever they came at
the bottom of the den.
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Then king Darius
wrote unto all people,
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nations, and languages,
that dwell in all the earth,
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Peace be multiplied unto you.
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I make a decree,
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That in every dominion
of my kingdom men tremble
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and fear before
the God of Daniel.
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