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Daniel 2:13

Daniel chapter 2 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

Context

v.12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

v.13This passage

v.14Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 28:15

    Asa roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So isa wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Daniel 1:19

    And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.

  • Daniel 6:9

    Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

  • Esther 3:12

    Then were the king’s scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king’s satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

  • Isaiah 10:1

    Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

  • Psalms 94:20

    Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?