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Daniel 4:17

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4:17 This announcement is by the decree of the sentinels;

this decision is by the pronouncement of the holy ones,

so that 1  those who are alive may understand

that the Most High has authority over human kingdoms, 2 

and he bestows them on whomever he wishes.

He establishes over them even the lowliest of human beings.’

Daniel 4:24-25

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4:24 this is the interpretation, O king! It is the decision of the Most High that this has happened to my lord the king. 4:25 You will be driven 3  from human society, 4  and you will live 5  with the wild animals. You will be fed 6  grass like oxen, 7  and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before 8  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.

Daniel 4:34

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4:34 But at the end of the appointed time 9  I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up 10  toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me.

I extolled the Most High,

and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever.

For his authority is an everlasting authority,

and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

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[4:17]  1 tc The present translation follows an underlying reading of עַל־דִּבְרַת (’al-divrat, “so that”) rather than MT עַד־דִּבְרַת (’ad-divrat, “until”).

[4:17]  2 tn Aram “the kingdom of man”; NASB “the realm of mankind”; NCV “every kingdom on earth.”

[4:25]  3 tn The Aramaic indefinite active plural is used here like the English passive. So also in v. 28, 29,32.

[4:25]  4 tn Aram “from mankind.” So also in v. 32.

[4:25]  5 tn Aram “your dwelling will be.” So also in v. 32.

[4:25]  6 tn Or perhaps “be made to eat.”

[4:25]  7 sn Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity has features that are associated with the mental disorder known as boanthropy, in which the person so afflicted imagines himself to be an ox or a similar animal and behaves accordingly.

[4:25]  8 tn Aram “until.”

[4:34]  9 tn Aram “days.”

[4:34]  10 tn Aram “lifted up my eyes.”



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