Daniel 4:31

While the words were still on the lips of the king, a voice came from heaven: “King Nebuchadnezzar, it is announced to you that this kingdom has been taken away from you.

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While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

In Context

30and he said, “Is this not the great Babylon, which I have built for my royal residence, for the glory of my majesty?”

32You will be driven away from people, and your home will be with the wild animals in the fields. You will be made to eat grass like an ox. Seven years will pass until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of people and he gives them to anyone he wishes.”

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Cross References

Exodus 15:9The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will share out the plunder; 1 my desire will be satisfied on them; 1 I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.' 1

1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and stubbornness is like wickedness and iniquity. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Psalms 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 1 and your dominion endures throughout all generations. 1

Daniel 4:34At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was given back to me. 1 “I praised the Most High, 1 and I honored and glorified the one who lives forever. 1 For his reign is an everlasting reign, 1 and his kingdom endures from all generations to all generations. 1

Daniel 5:28'Peres,' 'your kingdom is divided and is given to the Medes and Persians.'”

Daniel 12:7I heard the man clothed in linen, who was upstream along the river—he raised his right hand and his left hand to heaven and swore by the one who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:29-34

Nebuchadnezzar Driven among Beasts. ( b. c. 569.) 28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. 32 And they… Read the whole commentary →

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