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Daniel · read by Ed Miller
55 verses, in order. Only the verses Ed read aloud are shown.
Daniel 1
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And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king's service.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
Daniel 2
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As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
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The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
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its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.Read from ESV · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
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As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
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Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
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You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #3) Manifestation of Christ
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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.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
Daniel 3
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Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way."Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
Daniel 4
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I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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How great are His signs, how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; His dominion endures from generation to generation.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
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I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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In these visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this come to pass: There was a tree in the midst of the land, and its height was great.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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As I lay on my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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He called out in a loud voice: 'Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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Let his mind be changed from that of a man, and let him be given the mind of a beast till seven times pass him by.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.'Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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the king exclaimed, "Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?"Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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While the words were still in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven: "It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes."Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
Daniel 5
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Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.Read from NKJV · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #5) Fragrance of Christ
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At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #5) Fragrance of Christ
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In 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.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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Because 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.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #4) Fragrance of Christ
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That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #5) Fragrance of Christ
Daniel 6
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Soon, by his extraordinary spirit, Daniel distinguished himself among the administrators and satraps. So the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #6) Life of Christ
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He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions."Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
Daniel 7
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'These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
Daniel 8
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The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #1) Christ the Goal
Daniel 10
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In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
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I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ
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So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.Read from NASB1995 · (Daniel: The Man God Uses #2) the Revelation of Christ