Daniel 5:10

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8. Daniel 5:8

   Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

9. Daniel 5:9

   Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

11. Daniel 5:11

    There 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; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

12. Daniel 5:12

    Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.

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