Daniel 5:18

Daniel 5:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
• New International Version (NIV)“Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor.
• English Standard Version (ESV)O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.
• New King James Version (NKJV)O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor.

Context of Daniel 5:18

16However, I have heard that you are able to provide interpretations and to decipher knotty problems. Now if you are able to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, you will wear purple and have a golden collar around your neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.” 17But Daniel replied to the king, “Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else! However, I will read the writing for the king and make known its interpretation. As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty. 19Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished. 20And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.

Daniel 5:18 word by word

אַ֖נְתְּ מַלְכָּ֑א אֱלָהָא֙ עִלָּאָ֔ה מַלְכוּתָ֤א וּרְבוּתָא֙ וִיקָרָ֣א וְהַדְרָ֔ה יְהַ֖ב לִנְבֻכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר אֲבֽוּךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• O thouאַנְתָּה'antâh · youH607
• kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4430
• the most highעִלַּי‛illay · Most HighH5943
• Godאֱלָהּ'ĕlâhh · godH426
• gaveיְהַבyehab · to giveH3052
• Nebuchadnezzarנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר, נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּרnebûkkadnetstsar · NebuchadnezzarH5020
• thy fatherאַב'ab · fatherH2
• a kingdomמַלְכוּmalkû · kingdomH4437
• and majestyרְבוּrebû · greatnessH7238
• and gloryיְקָרyeqâr · honorH3367
• and honourהֲדַרhădar · honorH1923

Cross-references for Daniel 5:18

• Daniel 3:17If our God whom we are serving exists, he is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he will rescue us, O king, from your power as well.
• Daniel 4:22it is you, O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.
• Daniel 6:22My God sent his angel and closed the lions’ mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king.”
• Acts 26:13about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.
• Daniel 2:37“You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has granted you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor.
• Daniel 4:17This announcement is by the decree of the sentinels; this decision is by the pronouncement of the holy ones, so that those who are alive may understand that the Most High has authority over human kingdoms, and he bestows them on whomever he wishes. He establishes over them even the lowliest of human beings.’
• Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
• Psalms 7:17I will thank the Lord for his justice; I will sing praises to the sovereign Lord!
• Psalms 9:2I will be happy and rejoice in you! I will sing praises to you, O sovereign One!
• Psalms 47:2For the sovereign Lord is awe-inspiring; he is the great king who rules the whole earth!
• Psalms 92:8But you, O Lord, reign forever!
• Lamentations 3:35to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High,
• Acts 7:48Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

Commentaries on Daniel 5:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Nebuchadnezzar thy father - Or grandfather, as the margin reads, Daniel 5:2. See the notes on Daniel 5:1; (note).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. 18-21Daniel used Nebuchadnezzar as an example that should have guided the kings who came after him. But Belshazzar repeated the same mistake. He lifted himself up and dishonored the Most High God.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. God gave--It was not his own birth or talents which gave him the vast empire, as he thought. To make him unlearn his proud thought was the object of God's visitation on him. majesty--in the eyes of his subjects. glory--from his victories. honour--from the enlargement and decoration of the city.Read the comment

Topics related to Daniel 5:18

• Belshazzar
• Blessing
• Daniel
• Government
• Ingratitude
• Reproof
• Symbols and Similitudes
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• God
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Nebuchadnezzar; Nebuchadrezzar
• Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebuchadrezzar
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Most High
• Gift
• Light
• Loose
• Nergalsharezer

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