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Daniel 2:48

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

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But if you make the dream and its interpretation known to me, you’ll receive gifts, a reward, and great honour from me.  So make the dream and its interpretation known to me.’


There is a man in your kingdom who has a spirit of the holy gods in him.  In the days of your predecessor he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods. Your predecessor, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, mediums, Chaldeans, and diviners. Your own predecessor, the king,


‘Belteshazzar, head of the magicians, because I know that you have the spirit of the holy gods  and that no mystery puzzles you,  explain to me the visions of my dream that I saw, and its interpretation.


Then Belshazzar gave an order, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain round his neck,  and issued a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


However, I have heard about you that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Therefore, if you can read this inscription and give me its interpretation, you will be clothed in purple, have a gold chain round your neck, and have the third highest position in the kingdom.’


Then the king rewarded Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.


There are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  These men have ignored you,  the king; they do not serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.’


King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue,  27 metres high and 2.7 metres wide.  He set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.


I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the  Lord, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.


His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys,  and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.


Naaman,  commander of the army for the king of Aram, was a man important to his master and highly regarded  because through him, the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was a valiant warrior, but he had a skin disease.


Barzillai was a very old man #– #eighty years old #– #and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the needs of the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.


A man in Maon  had a business in Carmel;  he was a very rich man with three thousand sheep and one thousand goats and was shearing his sheep in Carmel.


Previously, an Israelite man had declared, ‘Do you see this man who keeps coming out? He comes to defy Israel. The king will make the man who kills him very rich and will give him his daughter.  The king will also make the family of that man’s father exempt from paying taxes in Israel.’


Now go to your home! I said I would reward you richly,  but look, the Lord has denied you a reward.’


He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the rubbish heap. He seats them with noblemen and gives them a throne of honour. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; he has set the world on them.


The king shouted to bring in the mediums, Chaldeans, and diviners. He said to these wise men of Babylon, ‘Whoever reads this inscription and gives me its interpretation will be clothed in purple, have a gold chain round his neck,  and have the third highest position in the kingdom.’


I, Daniel, was overcome and lay ill for days.  Then I got up and went about the king’s business.  I was greatly disturbed by the vision and could not understand it.


So I issued a decree  to bring all the wise men of Babylon to me in order that they might make the dream’s interpretation known to me.





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