Daniel 2:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

because you know what's going to happen if you don't come up with the answer. You've decided to make up a pack of lies, hoping I might change my mind. Now tell me the dream, and that will prove that you can interpret it.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:22

“I'll make Ahab's prophets lie to him.” “Good!” the LORD replied. “Now go and do it.”

1 Kings 22:6

Ahab sent for about four hundred prophets and asked, “Should I attack the Syrians at Ramoth?” “Yes!” the prophets answered. “The Lord will help you defeat them.”

Esther 4:11

there is a law about going in to see the king, and all his officials and his people know about this law. Anyone who goes in to see the king without being invited by him will be put to death. The only way that anyone can be saved is for the king to hold out the gold sceptre to that person. And it's been thirty days since he has asked for me.”

Proverbs 12:19

Truth will last for ever; lies are soon found out.

Isaiah 41:23

Prove that you are gods by making your predictions come true. Do something good or evil, so we can be amazed and terrified.

Isaiah 44:25

I make liars of false prophets and fools of fortune-tellers. I take human wisdom and turn it into nonsense.

Ezekiel 13:17

Ezekiel, son of man, now condemn the women of Israel who preach messages that come from their own imagination.

Ezekiel 13:19

They charge my people a few handfuls of barley and a couple of pieces of bread, and then give messages that are insulting to me. They use lies to sentence the innocent to death and to help the guilty go free. And my people believe them!

Ezekiel 13:6

Those prophets lie by claiming they speak for me, but I have not even chosen them to be my prophets. And they still think their words will come true.

Daniel 2:16

Daniel rushed off and said to the king, “If you will just give me some time, I'll explain your dream.”

Daniel 2:21

You control human events— you give rulers their power and take it away, and you are the source of wisdom and knowledge.

Daniel 2:8

The king replied, “You're just stalling for time,

Daniel 3:15

Now I am going to give you one more chance. If you bow down and worship the statue when you hear the music, everything will be all right. But if you don't, you will at once be thrown into a flaming furnace. No god can save you from me.”

Daniel 5:31

Then Darius the Mede, who was sixty-two years old, took over his kingdom.

Daniel 7:25

“This king will speak evil of God Most High, and he will be cruel to God's chosen ones. He will try to change God's Law and the sacred seasons. And he will be able to do this for a time, two times, and half a time.

2 Corinthians 2:17

A lot of people try to get rich from preaching God's message. But we are God's sincere messengers, and by the power of Christ we speak our message with God as our witness.