Daniel 5:20

Daniel 5:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
• New International Version (NIV)But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
• New Living Translation (NLT)But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.

Context of Daniel 5:20

18O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty. 19And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. 21He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. 22And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Daniel 5:20 word by word

וּכְדִי֙ רִ֣ם לִבְבֵ֔הּ וְרוּחֵ֖הּ תִּֽקְפַ֣ת לַהֲזָדָ֑ה הָנְחַת֙ מִן־כָּרְסֵ֣א מַלְכוּתֵ֔הּ וִֽיקָרָ֖ה הֶעְדִּ֥יוּ מִנֵּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But when his heartלְבַבlebab · heartH3825
• was lifted upרוּםrûm · to riseH7313
• and his mindרוּחַrûach · spiritH7308
• hardenedתְּקֵףteqêph · to grow strongH8631
• in prideזוּדzûd · be proudH2103
• he was deposedנְחֵתnechath · to descendH5182
• fromמִן־min · fromH4481
• his kinglyמַלְכוּmalkû · kingdomH4437
• throneכׇּרְסֵאkorsê' · throneH3764
• and they tookעֲדָה‛ădâ' ‛ădâh · to pass on/over/awayH5709
• his gloryיְקָרyeqâr · honorH3367

Cross-references for Daniel 5:20

• Daniel 4:30and the king answered and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?"
• Exodus 9:17You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
• Exodus 18:11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people."
• Job 15:25Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
• Job 40:11Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.
• Proverbs 16:5Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
• Isaiah 14:12"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
• Luke 1:51He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
• 1 Samuel 6:6Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?
• 2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
• 2 Chronicles 36:13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.
• Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• Isaiah 47:1Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
• Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."
• Jeremiah 48:18"Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

Commentaries on Daniel 5:20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20He was deposed from his kingly throne - Became insane; and the reins of government were taken out of his hands.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-31Verses 18-31 Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death is the judgment, when he…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20A person who rebels against God often has a heart and mind filled with arrogance (or a hardened heart; see Exodus 7:13; Joshua 11:20; Isaiah 14:3–5). Nebuchadnezzar was humbled when he became arrogant, and the same would happen to Belshazzar.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-311. Belshazzar--Rawlinson, from the Assyrian inscriptions, has explained the seeming discrepancy between Daniel and the heathen historians of Babylon, Berosus and Abydenus, who say the last king (Nabonidus) surrendered in Borsippa, after Babylon was taken, and had an honorable abode in Caramania assigned to him. Belshazzar was joint king with his father (called Minus in the inscriptions), but subordinate to him; hence the Babylonian account suppresses the…Read the comment

Topics related to Daniel 5:20

• Belshazzar
• Daniel
• Government
• Heart
• Ingratitude
• King
• Pride
• Reproof
• Self-Exaltation
• Symbols and Similitudes
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Gift
• Light
• Loose
• Aramaic; Aramaic Language
• Baruch, Book of
• Bible, the
• Daniel, Book of
• Languages of the Old Testament
• Babel
• Belshazzar

Commentaries on Daniel 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings