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Daniel 2:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

If you don’t tell me the dream, there is one decree for you.  You have conspired to tell me something false or fraudulent until the situation changes. So tell me the dream and I will know you can give me its interpretation.’

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He will speak words against the Most High  and oppress  the holy ones  of the Most High. He will intend to change religious festivals  and laws,  and the holy ones will be handed over to him for a time, times, and half a time.  ,


He changes the times and seasons; he removes kings and establishes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.


Tell us the coming events, then we will know that you are gods. Indeed, do something good or bad, then we will be in awe  when we see it.


‘All the royal officials and the people of the royal provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner courtyard  and who has not been summoned #– #the death penalty   #– # unless the king extends the gold sceptre, allowing that person to live.  I have not been summoned to appear before the king  for the last  thirty days.’


“Peres”  , means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’


Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire #– #and who is the god who can rescue you from my power? ’


They saw false visions and their divinations were a lie.  They claimed, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ when the Lord did not send them,  yet they wait for the fulfilment of their message.


who destroys the omens of the false prophets and makes fools of diviners; who confounds the wise and makes their knowledge foolishness;


For we do not market the word of God  for profit like so many.  On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.


and Darius the Mede  received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.


You profane me among my people for handfuls of barley  and scraps of bread; you put those to death who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to my people, who listen to lies.


‘Now you, son of man, face  the women among your people who prophesy  out of their own imagination, and prophesy against them.


Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue, only a moment.


‘The Lord asked him, “How? ” ‘He said, “I will go and become a lying spirit  in the mouth of all his prophets.” ‘Then he said, “You will certainly entice him and prevail.  Go and do that.”


So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men,  and asked them, ‘Should I go against Ramoth-gilead for war or should I refrain? ’ They replied, ‘March up, and the Lord will hand it over to the king.’


The king replied, ‘I know for certain you are trying to gain some time, because you see that my word is final.


So Daniel went and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give the king the interpretation.





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