Daniel 4:1
King Nebuchadnezzar sent this decree to all peoples, nations, and languages who lived on the earth: May your peace increase.
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1 Chronicles 12:18Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty. Amasai said, “We are yours, David. We are on your side, son of Jesse. Peace, may peace be to whoever helps you. May peace be to your helpers, for your God is helping you.” Then David received them and made them commanders over his men.
Ezra 5:7They sent a report, writing this to King Darius, “May all peace be yours.
Esther 8:9Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month. A decree was written containing all that Mordecai was commanding concerning the Jews. It was written to the provincial governors, the governors and officials of the provinces that were located from India to Cush, 127 provinces, to every province written in their own writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and language.
Daniel 3:29Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego must be torn apart, and that their houses must be made into rubbish heaps because there is no other god who is able to save like this.”
Daniel 6:27He makes us safe and rescues us, 1 and he does signs and wonders 1 in heaven and in earth; 1 he has kept Daniel safe from the strength of the lions.”
Zechariah 8:23Yahweh of hosts says this: In those days 1 ten men from every language and nation 1 will grasp the hem of your robe and say, 1 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!'”
Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:1
The penman of this chapter is Nebuchadnezzar himself: the story here recorded concerning him is given us in his own words, as he himself drew it up and published it; but Daniel, a prophet, by inspiration, inserts it in his history, and so it has become a part of sacred writ and a very memorable part. Nebuchadnezzar was as daring a rival with God Almighty for the sovereignty as perhaps any mortal man ever was; but here he fairly owns himself conquered, and gives it under his hand that the God of Israel is above… Read the whole commentary →