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Dan. 2:48 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many greata gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of theb governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

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Dan. 2:6• ⁶But if ye shew the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour; therefore shew me the dream and its interpretation. (Dan. 2:6)

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Dan. 4:9• ⁹O Belteshazzar, master of the scribes, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret is too hard for thee, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, and the interpretation of it. (Dan. 4:9)

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Dan. 5:11• ¹¹There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, even the king thy father, made him master of the scribes, magicians, Chaldeans, and astrologers; (Dan. 5:11)

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a great.

Dan. 2:6• ⁶But if ye shew the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour; therefore shew me the dream and its interpretation. (Dan. 2:6)

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Dan. 5:16• ¹⁶But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and solve problems. Now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. (Dan. 5:16)

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Gen. 41:39‑43• ³⁹And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.
⁴⁰Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only concerning the throne will I be greater than thou.
⁴¹And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
⁴²And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck.
⁴³And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt. (Gen. 41:39‑43)

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Num. 22:16‑17• ¹⁶And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: Suffer not thyself, I pray thee, to be restrained from coming to me;
¹⁷for very highly will I honour thee, and whatever thou shalt say to me will I do; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. (Num. 22:16‑17)

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Num. 24:11• ¹¹And now flee thou to thy place; I said I would very highly honour thee, and behold, Jehovah has kept thee back from honour. (Num. 24:11)

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1 Sam. 17:25• ²⁵And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that comes up? for to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who smites him, him will the king enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. (1 Sam. 17:25)

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1 Sam. 25:2• ²And there was a man at Maon, whose business was at Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep at Carmel. (1 Sam. 25:2)

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2 Sam. 19:32• ³²And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. (2 Sam. 19:32)

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2 Kings 5:1• ¹And Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man before his master, and honourable, for by him Jehovah had given deliverance to Syria; and he was a mighty man of valour, but a leper. (2 Kings 5:1)

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Job 1:3• ³And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; and this man was greater than all the children of the east. (Job 1:3)

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Jer. 5:5• ⁵I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God; but these have altogether broken the yoke, have burst the bonds. (Jer. 5:5)

ruler.

Dan. 5:29• ²⁹Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. (Dan. 5:29)

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Dan. 6:1‑2• ¹It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be in all the kingdom;
²and over these, three presidents--of whom Daniel was one--to whom these satraps should render account, and that the king should suffer no loss. (Dan. 6:1‑2)

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Dan. 4:9• ⁹O Belteshazzar, master of the scribes, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret is too hard for thee, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, and the interpretation of it. (Dan. 4:9)

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Dan. 5:11• ¹¹There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, even the king thy father, made him master of the scribes, magicians, Chaldeans, and astrologers; (Dan. 5:11)

• Like Pharaoh, the king felt that “a man in whom the Spirit of God” was (Gen. 41:38), would be a valuable assistant in government. (“Daniel 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.