Daniel 2:18 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁸ 6 The king answered, and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltassar: Thinkest thou indeed that thou canst tell me the dream that I saw, and the interpretation thereof?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ So that they would desire and request mercy of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ so that they would ask the God of heaven for help about this mystery, in hopes that Daniel and his friends wouldn’t die with the rest of Babylon’s sages.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ so that they would seek mercy before the face of the God of heaven, about this mystery, and so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the other wise men of Babylon.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁸ and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2:18 Cross References

Genesis 18:28

8 What if there be Ave less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city? And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.

Psalm 136:26

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Psalm 50:15

2 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Psalm 91:15

The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

Isaiah 37:4

2 Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar?

Jeremiah 33:3

1 The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:37

And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each one to its joint.

Daniel 2:23

1 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great statue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood before thee, and the look thereof was terrible.

Daniel 3:17

5 He answered, and said: Behold I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Daniel 4:26

4 Now at the end of the days, I Nabuchodonosor lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my sense was restored to me: and I blessed the most High, and I praised and glorified him that liveth for ever: for his power is an everlasting power, and his kingdom is to all generations.

Jonah 1:9

7 Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Malachi 3:18

Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren.

Matthew 18:12

0 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 18:19

7 And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt.

Acts 12:4

2 And considering, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, who was surnamed Mark, where many were gathered together and praying.

Romans 15:30

Salute Mary, who hath laboured much among you.

2 Peter 2:9

8 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

1 Samuel 17:37

2 And when the Philistine looked, and beheld David, he despised him. For he was a young man, ruddy, and of a comely countenance.