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Daniel · read by William MacDonald
70 verses, in order. Only the verses William read aloud are shown.
Daniel 1
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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.Read from ESV · Study in Daniel 1 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 NKJV · Study in Daniel 1 Daniel-1
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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 NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-06 Daniel 1
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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 NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-06 Daniel 1
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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 KJV · Lessons From Daniel
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Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 1 Daniel-1
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The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-06 Daniel 1
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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 NKJV · Study in Daniel 1 Daniel-1
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Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 1 Daniel-1
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but he said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!"Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 1 Daniel-1
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Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-06 Daniel 1
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"Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-06 Daniel 1
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Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see."Read from KJV · Lessons From Daniel
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And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king's food.Read from KJV · Lessons From Daniel
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So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-06 Daniel 1
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To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. And Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.Read from KJV · Lessons From Daniel
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Now at the end of the time specified by the king, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.Read from KJV · Lessons From Daniel
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And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king's service.Read from KJV · Lessons From Daniel
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In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-06 Daniel 1
Daniel 3
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King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-07 Daniel 3
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Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other officials of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue he had set up.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-07 Daniel 3
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So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the rulers of the provinces assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-07 Daniel 3
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At this time some astrologers came forward and maliciously accused the Jews,Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
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saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, may you live forever!Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
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But there are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—who have ignored you, O king, and have refused to serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up."Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
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Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?"Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.Read from ESV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
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If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-07 Daniel 3
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But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up."Read from NKJV · Take a Stand for God
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and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
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Suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and asked his advisers, "Did we not throw three men, firmly bound, into the fire?" "Certainly, O king," they replied.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
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"Look!" he exclaimed. "I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!"Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 3 Daniel-3
Daniel 4
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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 NKJV · Study in Daniel 1 Daniel-1
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All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, 'What have You done?'"Read from NKJV · The Soverign of the Universe
Daniel 6
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Now it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 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 NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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Thus the administrators and satraps sought a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or corruption, because he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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Finally these men said, "We will never find any charge against this Daniel, unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God."Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, "O King Darius, may you live forever!Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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Therefore, O king, establish the decree and sign the document so that it cannot be changed—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed."Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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Therefore King Darius signed the written decree.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: "Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?" The king replied, "According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed."Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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Then they told the king, "Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, shows no regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed. He still makes his petition three times a day."Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!"Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that nothing concerning Daniel could be changed.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the den of lions.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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When he reached the den, he cried out in a voice of anguish, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?"Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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Then Daniel replied, "O king, may you live forever!Read from ESV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king."Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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Then King Darius wrote to the people of every nation and language throughout the land: "May your prosperity abound.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
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I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.Read from NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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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 NKJV · Cmml Missionary Conference 1995-08 Daniel 6
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So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.Read from NKJV · Study in Daniel 6 Daniel-6
Daniel 9
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So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.Read from KJV · Priorities-04 Dan 9
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And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, "O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,Read from KJV · Priorities 02 Subject Studies
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we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.Read from KJV · Confession
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We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.Read from KJV · Priorities 02 Subject Studies
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To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.Read from KJV · The Attributes of God - Part 4
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O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.Read from KJV · Keys to Revival
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To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against HimRead from KJV · Priorities-04 Dan 9
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and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.Read from KJV · Priorities 02 Subject Studies
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Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.Read from KJV · Attributes of God - Holiness Righteousness and Soveriegnty