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Daniel 5:19 Explained in Context
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Verse 19. 19And 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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Quick Meaning
Daniel 5:19 develops this movement with “And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared…”.
Read It With
- Daniel 5:17–24
Read Daniel 5:19 with 5:17–24. Daniel 5:19 develops this movement with “And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Daniel refuses ownership of the rewards, retells Nebuchadnezzar's humbling, and charges Belshazzar with knowing yet profaning the vessels.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The writing receives a moral context before a lexical solution: the issue is not ignorance but proud refusal of a known warning. “Daniel Rejects Gifts and Indicts the King” opens that larger movement. This completes the present movement before the next larger development: Daniel reads the three weight-words as numbered rule, weighed failure, and divided kingdom. Within that movement: Daniel 5:19 develops this movement with “And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared…”.
What Remains True
Greater knowledge increases a leader's responsibility to change, especially where sacred contempt and dehumanizing power continue. Daniel 5:17-24 keeps that truth tied to this claim: Daniel refuses ownership of the rewards, retells Nebuchadnezzar's humbling, and charges Belshazzar with knowing yet profaning the vessels. In this unit: Daniel 5:19 develops this movement with “And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared…”.
How It Can Shape Life
- Before explaining a failure technically, ask what warning the institution already knew and chose not to act on. In Daniel 5:17-24, respond specifically to this movement: Daniel refuses ownership of the rewards, retells Nebuchadnezzar's humbling, and charges Belshazzar with knowing yet profaning the vessels. For Daniel 5:19 specifically, keep this reviewed contribution in view: develops this movement with “And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared…”. Read it inside 5:17–24; do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Continue in Context
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Read Daniel 5:17-24 — Daniel Rejects Gifts and Indicts the KingSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Daniel 5:17-24, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Daniel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew-Aramaic wording, morphology, language boundary, names, repeated roots, clauses, and lexical controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Dan.xml, 5:17-24; Hebrew 1:1–2:4a and 8:1–12:13, Aramaic 2:4b–7:28
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Daniel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew-Aramaic, textual, historical, translation, chronology, angelic-language, and duration notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Daniel PDF, printed pp. 1653–1655, translation and translator notes on 5:17-24
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