Daniel 2:12 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For this cause the king was angry and very furious and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Common English Bible

¹² At this, the king exploded in a furious rage and ordered that all Babylon’s sages be wiped out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² When he heard this, the king commanded, in fury and in great wrath, that all the wise men of Babylon should be destroyed.

English Standard Version 2016

¹² Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Good News Translation

¹² At that, the king flew into a rage and ordered the execution of all the royal advisers in Babylon.

Daniel 2:12 Cross References

Job 5:2

For wrath killeth the foolish man, And envy slayeth the silly one.

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

Proverbs 16:14

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: But a wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: Whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirreth up strife, And a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Daniel 2:24

Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.

Daniel 2:5

The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

Daniel 3:13

Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.

Daniel 3:19

Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

Daniel 5:19

and for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

Matthew 5:22

but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.