Daniel 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Chaldeans said to the king (in Aramaic), “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will reveal the interpretation.”

Cross References

Genesis 31:47

Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 41:8

In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

1 Kings 1:25

For today he has gone down and has sacrificed oxen, fatted cattle, and sheep in abundance and has invited all the king’s children, Joab the commander of the army, and the priest Abiathar, who are now eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

1 Kings 1:31

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Ezra 4:7

And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to King Artaxerxes of Persia; the letter was written in Aramaic and translated.

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my ancestors’ graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Isaiah 36:11

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

Daniel 1:4

young men without physical defect and handsome, versed in every branch of wisdom, endowed with knowledge and insight, and competent to serve in the king’s palace; they were to be taught the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

Daniel 2:7

They answered a second time, “Let the king first tell his servants the dream, then we can give its interpretation.”

Daniel 3:9

They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!

Daniel 4:19

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was severely distressed for a while. His thoughts terrified him. The king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or the interpretation terrify you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!

Daniel 4:7

Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not tell me its interpretation.

Daniel 4:9

“O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that you are endowed with a spirit of the holy gods and that no mystery is too difficult for you. Hear the dream that I saw, and tell me its interpretation.

Daniel 5:10

The queen, when she heard the discussion of the king and his lords, came into the banquet hall. The queen said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts terrify you or your face grow pale.

Daniel 5:8

Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king the interpretation.

Daniel 6:21

Daniel then said to the king, “O king, live forever!

Daniel 6:6

So the administrators and satraps conspired and came to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever!

Daniel 6:7

All the administrators of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an interdict, that whoever prays to any god or human, for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions.

Matthew 21:9

The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

1 Samuel 10:24

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”