Daniel 5:18
New International Version
“Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor.

New Living Translation
Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, majesty, glory, and honor to your predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar.

English Standard Version
O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.

Berean Standard Bible
As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.

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

New King James Version
O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor.

New American Standard Bible
O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, greatness, honor, and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

NASB 1995
“O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

NASB 1977
“O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory, and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

Legacy Standard Bible
O king, the Most High God granted the kingdom, grandeur, glory, and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

Amplified Bible
O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty;

Christian Standard Bible
Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, greatness, glory, and majesty to your predecessor Nebuchadnezzar.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, greatness, glory, and majesty to your predecessor Nebuchadnezzar.

American Standard Version
O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You, oh, King, God Most High gave the Kingdom, and greatness and honor and glory to Nebukadnetsar, your father

Brenton Septuagint Translation
O king, the most high God gave to thy father Nabuchodonosor a kingdom, and majesty, and honour, and glory:

Contemporary English Version
Sir, the Most High God made your father a great and powerful man and brought him much honor and glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor thy father a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.

English Revised Version
O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your grandfather Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, might, honor, and glory.

Good News Translation
"The Supreme God made your father Nebuchadnezzar a great king and gave him dignity and majesty.

International Standard Version
Your majesty, the Most High God gave your grandfather Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty, as well as greatness, glory, and splendor.

JPS Tanakh 1917
O thou king, God Most High gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;

Literal Standard Version
you, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honor, gave to your father Nebuchadnezzar:

Majority Standard Bible
As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.

New American Bible
The Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, splendor, and majesty.

NET Bible
As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

New Revised Standard Version
O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty.

New Heart English Bible
You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

Webster's Bible Translation
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor:

World English Bible
“To you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

Young's Literal Translation
thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Daniel Interprets the Handwriting
17In response, Daniel said to the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the inscription for the king and interpret it for him. 18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor. 19Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.…

Cross References
2 Kings 25:28
And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 27:5
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

Ezekiel 31:11
I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

Daniel 2:37
You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.

Daniel 2:38
Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

Daniel 4:2
I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.


Treasury of Scripture

O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor:

O thou.

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…

Daniel 4:22
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.

Daniel 6:22
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

the most.

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…

Daniel 4:17,22-25,32
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…

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.

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Daniel 5
1. Belshazzar's impious feast.
5. A hand-writing unknown to the magicians, troubles the king.
10. At the commendation of the queen Daniel is brought.
17. He, reproving the king of pride and idolatry,
25. reads and interprets the writing.
30. The monarchy is translated to the Medes














(18) The most high God.--Comp. this and the three following verses with Daniel 4:16-17; Daniel 4:22-25.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
As for you,
אַ֖נְתְּ (’ant)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 607: You

O king,
מַלְכָּ֑א (mal·kā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 4430: A king

the Most High
עִלָּאָ֔ה (‘il·lā·’āh)
Adjective - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 5943: highest', a name of God

God
אֱלָהָא֙ (’ĕ·lā·hā)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 426: God

gave
יְהַ֖ב (yə·haḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3052: To give, to put, imperatively, come

your father
אֲבֽוּךְ׃ (’ă·ḇūḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2: Father

Nebuchadnezzar
לִנְבֻכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר (lin·ḇu·ḵaḏ·neṣ·ṣar)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5020: Nebuchadnezzar -- a Babylonian king

sovereignty
מַלְכוּתָ֤א (mal·ḵū·ṯā)
Noun - feminine singular determinate
Strong's 4437: Royalty, reign, kingdom

and greatness,
וּרְבוּתָא֙ (ū·rə·ḇū·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular determinate
Strong's 7238: Greatness

glory
וִיקָרָ֣א (wî·qā·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 3367: Value, wealth, costliness, dignity

and honor.
וְהַדְרָ֔ה (wə·haḏ·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's 1923: An honor, majesty


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