Daniel 2:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

if you do not tell me the dream, there is but one verdict for you. You have agreed to speak lying and misleading words to me until things take a turn. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can give me its interpretation.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:22

‘How?’ the Lord asked him. He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then the Lord said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.’

1 Kings 22:6

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred of them, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” They said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

Esther 4:11

“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that, if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law: to be put to death. Only if the king holds out the golden scepter to someone may that person live. I myself have not been called to come in to the king for thirty days.”

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Isaiah 41:23

Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be afraid and terrified.

Isaiah 44:25

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

Ezekiel 13:17

As for you, mortal, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imaginations; prophesy against them

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

Ezekiel 13:6

They have envisioned falsehood and lying divination; they say, “Says the Lord,” when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they wait for the fulfillment of their word!

Daniel 2:16

So Daniel went in and requested that the king give him time and he would tell the king the interpretation.

Daniel 2:21

He changes times and seasons, deposes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.

Daniel 2:8

The king answered, “I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time because you see the decree from me is firm:

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, you should fall down and worship the statue that I have made. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel 5:28

peres: your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 5:31

And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Daniel 7:25

He shall speak words against the Most High, shall wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and shall attempt to change the ritual calendar and the law, and they shall be given into his power for a time, two times, and half a time.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not peddlers of God’s word like so many, but as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.