Daniel 4:17
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the base of men.
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Exodus 9:16And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, in order to show in you my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
1 Kings 21:25But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
2 Kings 21:6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psalms 75:6For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psalms 113:7He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;
Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:5-19
Nebuchadnezzar's Second Dream; Nebuchadnezzar Relates His Dream. ( b. c. 570.) 4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. 6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before… Read the whole commentary →