Daniel 5:18

O thou king, El Elyon gave Nevukhadnetzar thy forefather a malchut, and gedulah (greatness), and kavod (glory), and hadar (majesty);

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:

In Context

17Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the mikhtav (writing) unto the king, and make known to him the pesher (interpretation, explanation).

19And for the gedulah that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him; whom he would he violently killed; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:8When HaElyon divided to the Goyim their nachalah, 1 when He separated the Bnei Adam, 1 He set the gevulot (borders) of the people 1 according to the number of the Bnei Yisroel. 1

Psalms 7:17His trouble shall return upon his own rosh, 1 and his chamas shall come down upon his own kodkod (crown of the head). 1

Psalms 47:2O clap your hands, all ye nations; 1 shout unto Elohim with the voice of joy. 1

Jeremiah 27:7And all Goyim shall serve him, and bno, and ben bno, until the very time of his land come; and then many Goyim and great melachim shall make him serve [in bondage to] them.

Lamentations 3:38Out of the mouth of Elyon proceedeth not 1 hara'ot (the woe) and hatov (the good)? 1

Daniel 3:17If it be so, Eloheinu whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:11-30

Daniel Brought before Belshazzar. ( b. c. 538.) 10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy… Read the whole commentary →

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