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Daniel 3:9

They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Coercion;   Conspiracy;   Faith;   Furnace;   Indictments;   Persecution;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Magistrates;   Nation, the;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Rulers;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Persecution;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Furnaces;   Image;   Punishments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Government;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daniel, Book of;   God;   Image, Nebuchadnezzar's;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abednego ;   Cornet;   Furnace;   Psaltery;   Sackbut;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abednego;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “May the king live forever.
Hebrew Names Version
They answered Nevukhadnetztzar the king, O king, live for ever.
King James Version
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
English Standard Version
They declared to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!
New American Standard Bible
They began to speak and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: "O king, live forever!
New Century Version
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!
Amplified Bible
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they spake and said to the King Nebuchad-nezzar, O King, liue for euer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: "O king, live forever!
Berean Standard Bible
saying to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, may you live forever!
Contemporary English Version
They said, "Your Majesty, we hope you live forever!
Complete Jewish Bible
They said to N'vukhadnetzar the king, "May the king live forever!
Darby Translation
They spoke and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever!
Easy-to-Read Version
They said, "King, may you live forever!
George Lamsa Translation
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever!
Good News Translation
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "May Your Majesty live forever!
Lexham English Bible
They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, "O king, may you live forever!
Literal Translation
They answered and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde vnto kynge Nabuchodonosor: O kynge, God saue thy lyfe for euer.
American Standard Version
They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.
Bible in Basic English
They made answer and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O King, have life for ever.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They spoke and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: 'O king, live for ever!
King James Version (1611)
They spake and sayd to the King Nebuchad-nezzar, O King, liue for euer.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They spake, and sayde vnto the king Nabuchodonozor: O king, liue for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O king, live for ever.
English Revised Version
They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.
World English Bible
They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seiden to the kyng Nabugodonosor, Kyng, lyue thou with outen ende.
Update Bible Version
They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live forever.
Webster's Bible Translation
They spoke and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
New English Translation
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!
New King James Version
They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!
New Living Translation
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "Long live the king!
New Revised Standard
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
they spake, and said, to Nebuchadnezzar the king: O king! for ages, live!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king, live for ever:
Revised Standard Version
They said to King Nebuchadnez'zar, "O king, live for ever!
Young's Literal Translation
they have answered, yea, they are saying to Nebuchadnezzar the king, `O king, to the ages live!

Contextual Overview

8 At this time certain ones who learned from stars came up and spoke against the Jews. 9 They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever! 10 You yourself, O king, have made a law that every man who hears the sound of the horns and harps and all kinds of music is to get down on his knees and worship the object of gold. 11 And whoever does not get down and worship must be thrown into the big and hot fire. 12 There are certain Jews whom you have chosen as leaders over the land of Babylon. Their names are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. These men have not listened to you, O king. They do not serve your gods or worship the object of gold which you have set up." 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar became very angry and called for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. And they were brought to the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the object of gold that I have set up? 15 Now if you are ready to get down on your knees and worship the object I have made when you hear the sound of the horns and harps and all kinds of music, very well. But if you will not worship, you will be thrown at once into the fire. And what god is able to save you from my hands?" 16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer to this question. 17 If we are thrown into the fire, our God Whom we serve is able to save us from it. And He will save us from your hand, O king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

king: Daniel 3:4, Daniel 3:5

O King: Daniel 2:4, Daniel 5:10, Daniel 6:6, Daniel 6:21, Romans 13:7

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:31 - Let my 2 Kings 11:12 - and said Ezra 5:7 - all peace Nehemiah 2:3 - Let the king Esther 3:4 - that they told Daniel 3:24 - O king

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The snake fooled me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:17
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust."
Genesis 3:20
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made clothes of skins for Adam and his wife, and dressed them.
Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 11:5
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built.
Genesis 16:8
He said, "Hagar, you who serve Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am running away from Sarai, the one I serve."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They spake and said to Nebuchadnezzar,.... Having got access unto him, and within his hearing, they expressed themselves in the following manner:

O king, live for ever; this they said to show their fidelity and hearty attachment to him, and their regard to his welfare, and the continuance of his life; and the rather to ingratiate themselves into his affections, and gain audience of him; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O king, live for ever - A customary form of address to a monarch, implying that long life was regarded as an eminent blessing. See the notes at Daniel 2:4.


 
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