Daniel 5 · Verse 18

Daniel 5:18

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
Daniel 5:18, King James Version

Daniel 5:18 in other translations

BSBAs for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
WEB“To you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.
ASVO thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
YLTthou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:
DARBYO thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;
BBEAs for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:
WebsterO thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor:

What does Daniel 5:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
18. God gave--It was not his own birth or talents which gave him the vast empire, as he thought. To make him unlearn his proud thought was the object of God's visitation on him. majesty--in the eyes of his subjects. glory--from his victories. honour--from the enlargement and decoration of the city.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 18 Nebuchadnezzar thy father - Or grandfather, as the margin reads, Dan 5:2. See the notes on Dan 5:1 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 5:18-31
Daniel reads Belshazzar's doom. He had not taken warning by the judgments upon Nebuchadnezzar. And he had insulted God. Sinners are pleased with gods that neither see, nor hear, nor know; but they will be judged by One to whom all things are open. Daniel reads the sentence written on the wall. All this may well be applied to the doom of every sinner. At death, the sinner's days are numbered and finished; after death is the judgment, when he will be weighed in the balance, and found wanting; and after judgment the sinner will be cut asunder, and given as a prey to the devil and his angels. While these things were passing in the palace, it is considered that the army of Cyrus entered the city; and when Belshazzar was slain, a general submission followed. Soon will every impenitent sinner find the writing of God's word brought to pass upon him, whether he is weighed in the balance of the law as a self-righteous Pharisee, or in that of the gospel as a painted hypocrite.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Daniel 5:18 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַ֖נְתְּ'an.tahyouH607
מַלְכָּ֑אmal.Ka'king OH4430
אֱלָהָא֙'e.la.Ha'<the> GodH426
עִלָּאָ֔הi.la.ya'Most High theH5943
מַלְכוּתָ֤אmal.khu.Ta'kingdom theH4437
וּרְבוּתָא֙u.re.vu.Ta'and greatness theH7238
וִיקָרָ֣אvi.ka.Ra'and honor theH3367
וְהַדְרָ֔הve.had.Rah'and majesty theH1923
יְהַ֖בye.Havhe gaveH3052
לִנְבֻכַדְנֶצַּ֥רlin.vu.khad.ne.Tzarto NebuchadnezzarH5020
אֲבֽוּךְ\׃'a.Vukhfather yourH2

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Daniel 5:18

  • Daniel 2:37-38

    Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.

  • Daniel 4:17

    This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

  • Daniel 4:22-25

    It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

  • Daniel 4:2

    I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.

  • Psalms 92:8

    But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.

  • Daniel 4:32

    And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

  • Acts 7:48

    Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

  • Psalms 7:17

    I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

  • Lamentations 3:35

    To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

  • Psalms 47:2

    For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

  • Deuteronomy 32:8

    When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

  • Daniel 3:17-18

    If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
O thou.
3:17,18; 4:22; 6:22; Ac 26:13,19
the most.
2:37,38; 4:17,22-25,32; De 32:8; Ps 7:17; 9:2; 47:2; 92:8
La 3:35,38; Ac 7:48

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Context

  • Daniel 5:17

    Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

  • Daniel 5:18

    O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:

  • Daniel 5:19

    And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

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Daniel 5:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El altísimo Dios, oh rey, dió á Nabucodonosor tu padre el reino, y la grandeza, y la gloria, y la honra:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ô roi, le Dieu Très-haut donna à Nebucadnetsar, ton père, le royaume, et la grandeur, et l’honneur, et la majesté;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Du, o König! der höchste Gott hatte Nebukadnezar, deinem Vater, das Königtum und die Größe und die Ehre und die Herrlichkeit verliehen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
O rex, Deus altissimus regnum et magnificentiam, gloriam et honorem dedit Nabuchodonosor patri tuo.