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Daniel 3:9

And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king, live for ever:

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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 Life Bible
They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!
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!
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 And presently at that very time some Chaldeans came and accused the Jews, 9 And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king, live for ever: 10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the trumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and the psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of music, shall prostrate himself, and adore the golden statue: 11 And that if any man shall not fall down and adore, he should be cast into a furnace of burning fire. 12 Now there are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the works of the province of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, O king, have slighted thy decree: they worship not thy gods, nor do they adore the golden statue which thou hast set up. 13 Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in wrath, commanded that Sidrach, Misach, ad Abdenago should be brought: who immediately were brought before the king. 14 And Nabuchodonosor, the king, spoke to them, and said: Is it true, O Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, that you do not worship my gods, nor adore the golden statue that I have set up? 15 Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?par 16 Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered, and said to king Nabuchodonosor: We have no occasion to answer thee concerning this matter. 17 For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, 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
And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 4:9
And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered: I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?
Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
Genesis 16:8
He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

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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