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Speaker 4: Today's story is the fifth episode in our series about
Speaker 4: Daniel and his three friends.
Speaker 5: If you like, you can read this story in your Bible.
Speaker 5: The Book of Daniel, chapter four. We call it seven
Speaker 5: years A beast.
Speaker 6: And Nebu Kadnessear, King of Babylon, called on to him
Speaker 6: the court's criscribe.
Speaker 7: Bye, I want a small scroll written. You'll write it
Speaker 7: for me. This is to be posted and heralded in
Speaker 7: every hamlet and city, so every person may read it
Speaker 7: or have it read to him.
Speaker 6: I understand your majesty.
Speaker 7: I will tell you what to write you ready, Yes,
Speaker 7: may i Nebukudnessa the King, And to all people, nations
Speaker 7: and languages that dwell in all the earth, peace be multiplied.
Speaker 8: Unto you.
Speaker 7: I thought it good to show the signs and wonders
Speaker 7: that the God from on high hath wrought towards me.
Speaker 7: How great are his signs and how mighty are his wonders.
Speaker 7: His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is
Speaker 7: from generation to generation. I, Nebucandnezzar, was at ease in
Speaker 7: my house. I wanted for nothing. I was flourishing with
Speaker 7: praise and honor and glory and wealth. I lay down
Speaker 7: to sleep, and I dreamed a dream that made me afraid.
Speaker 7: And the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of
Speaker 7: my head alarm.
Speaker 2: Nebukudnezar, wake up, wake up, wake up. You must have
Speaker 2: been dreaming.
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 2: I'm the queen and you're at the royal palace.
Speaker 7: Remember, Oh, I must have been dreaming. Oh oh, it
Speaker 7: was terrible.
Speaker 2: The last time you dreamed you couldn't even remember it. Dan,
Speaker 2: you'll have to tell you what you dreamed.
Speaker 7: I remember this one all right, and it was terrible.
Speaker 7: He must have some awful meaning.
Speaker 1: Your dreams usually do.
Speaker 2: Was there an image in this dream?
Speaker 7: No? No, no, were worse things than images. And terrible
Speaker 7: things happened are so fast I could hardly keep up
Speaker 7: with them.
Speaker 2: These terrible things. Did they happen to you?
Speaker 7: No? No, not in the dream. But they refer to me.
Speaker 7: I'm sure of that. I've got to know exactly what
Speaker 7: it means.
Speaker 2: Why don't you tell me your dream I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear it well.
Speaker 7: First of all, I saw a tree, a big tree
Speaker 7: that stood in the very center of the earth. The
Speaker 7: tree grew and was strong. It grew until the top
Speaker 7: of it reached heaven, and it spread out over the
Speaker 7: whole earth. The lead of the tree were fair lots
Speaker 7: of good fruit, food for all the beasts of the field.
Speaker 7: The birds of the air, and the fowls all found
Speaker 7: shelter and food under this tree. The tree brought comfort
Speaker 7: and happiness to all the earth. Then a holy watcher
Speaker 7: came down from out of heaven and cried aloud. I
Speaker 7: remember his exact words.
Speaker 9: You down the tree and cut off its branches, strip
Speaker 9: off its leaves, and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts
Speaker 9: flee from under it, and the birds from its branches,
Speaker 9: But leave the stump of its roots in the earth,
Speaker 9: bound with a band of iron and brass amid the
Speaker 9: tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with
Speaker 9: the dew of heaven. Let his lot be with the
Speaker 9: beasts in the grass of the earth. Let his mind
Speaker 9: be changed from a man's, and let a beast's mind
Speaker 9: be given to him, And let seven times pass over him.
Speaker 2: I don't see anything so terrible about that dream?
Speaker 7: You don't, But what if it refers to me?
Speaker 2: You're the king, order your wise men to interpret the dream,
Speaker 2: then you'll know exactly what's going to happen. Why don't
Speaker 2: you send for Daniel.
Speaker 7: No, No, I think I'll give the otherwise men a
Speaker 7: chance first.
Speaker 2: But they failed before.
Speaker 7: Yes, but this time I remember the dream and it
Speaker 7: seems so explicit and definite. I'm sure they can interpret it.
Speaker 7: I'll give the necessary orders the first thing in the morning.
Speaker 7: Right now, I'm going to try to get some more sleep.
Speaker 6: Do you have all that scribe, Yes, your majesty.
Speaker 7: Therefore, early in the morning I made a decree ordering
Speaker 7: all the wise men of Babylon to appear before me,
Speaker 7: that they might be told my dream and tell me
Speaker 7: the interpretation thereof. Then came in the magicians, the enchanters,
Speaker 7: the astrologers, the wise men, wise men, if such you are,
Speaker 7: you are all members of my court. You make up
Speaker 7: my inner my most trustworthy counsel.
Speaker 3: Marvel.
Speaker 7: Not that I sent for you, Marve, or rather that
Speaker 7: I Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, am forgiving and long suffering.
Speaker 7: For indeed, have I forgotten how you fail to tell
Speaker 7: me the secret of my last dream.
Speaker 3: His Majesty had another dream.
Speaker 8: I did tell us the dream, O King, and we
Speaker 8: will give you its interpretation.
Speaker 7: Well, in my dream, I saw and beheld a tree
Speaker 7: in the very midst of the earth and the height thereons.
Speaker 7: This is the dream that I dreamed. Therefore, wise, men
Speaker 7: give me the ent invitation thereof.
Speaker 10: Yes, Sire, we will, your Majesty, Oh, yeah, yes, we will.
Speaker 8: Indeed, indeed we will, and if it please His Majesty.
Speaker 8: His Majesty remembered the dream unusually well and described it
Speaker 8: better than a professional scribe could have done.
Speaker 10: Well, that's true, indeed it is, it is, yes, indeed, yes, yes,
Speaker 10: But what does this mean?
Speaker 3: The dream?
Speaker 1: The dream?
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, the dream.
Speaker 8: Will His Majesty please review again the dream for us.
Speaker 7: In my dream I saw and beheld a tree in
Speaker 7: the very midst Or you can't interpret it, you're just
Speaker 7: stalling for time. But if His Majesty will just relate
Speaker 7: it to us, yes, I should have known better than
Speaker 7: to trust you. I should have called Daniel. Daniel, your Majesty, Yes, Daniel,
Speaker 7: the spirit of the God of Heaven is in him.
Speaker 7: He will interpret my dream, So so will we hear,
Speaker 7: your majesty, given a little more time.
Speaker 8: All we need is a little time to think, I mean,
Speaker 8: consolidate our thought.
Speaker 3: Lies, lies lie.
Speaker 10: We have interpreted many dreams, your Majesty, my dreams. No,
Speaker 10: not yours, your Majesty, but others. Well, there was a first,
Speaker 10: there was a well many others, Your Majesty, name me
Speaker 10: just one.
Speaker 8: Mine? Yes? Mine?
Speaker 7: Did it come true? The interpretation?
Speaker 8: Oh, of course, your Majesty, I'm sure it did. Enough
Speaker 8: of this farce. Scribe sent for Daniel. I think he's
Speaker 8: in the east wing of the palace. Had him come
Speaker 8: here at once, Yes, your Majesty, If it please His Majesty,
Speaker 8: I have much to do in the temple. With his
Speaker 8: Majesty's permission, I shall withdraw is we have an early meeting.
Speaker 7: Yes, you remain here, all of you, right here. I
Speaker 7: want you to listen to a real wise man.
Speaker 8: Can you.
Speaker 3: Long live the King?
Speaker 8: Daniel?
Speaker 7: Last night I dreamed another dream. These wise men standing
Speaker 7: before us couldn't give me the interpretation. So I sent
Speaker 7: for you. The spirit of the God in heaven is
Speaker 7: in you, and no secret evadeth you. So tell me
Speaker 7: the meaning of my dream.
Speaker 11: As my Lord the King wishes well.
Speaker 7: Daniel, as I slept on my bed, I dreamed a
Speaker 7: dream and beheld a tree in the very mets. That
Speaker 7: was my dream, Daniel, and I charge thee declare unto
Speaker 7: me the interpretation thereof, For as much as all the
Speaker 7: wise men of my kingdom are not able to make
Speaker 7: known unto me the interpretation, but thou art able to Daniel,
Speaker 7: for the spirit of the Holy God is in thee.
Speaker 6: For a time, Daniel did not speak, but was filled
Speaker 6: with alarm as he realized the terrible meaning of the dream.
Speaker 11: O King, live forever. The dream thou dreamed is if
Speaker 11: it pleases, Majesty, I would rather not tell its meaning.
Speaker 7: I gather that the dream means something evil.
Speaker 3: Evil for me, my Lord.
Speaker 11: The dream is for those that hate you, and the
Speaker 11: interpretation for your enemies. Oh is it that bad, O King,
Speaker 11: the God of Heaven hath laid upon me the solemn
Speaker 11: duty of revealing to you the judgment that is about
Speaker 11: to fall upon you because of your pride and arrogant.
Speaker 7: I do not permit anyone to talk to me like this.
Speaker 3: I am the King.
Speaker 7: Oh ah, all right, Daniel, proceed.
Speaker 11: I am sorry for all this, your majesty, but I
Speaker 11: I must interpret the dream correctly, regardless of what you
Speaker 11: may do to me. His Majesty must realize the terrible
Speaker 11: import of the dream.
Speaker 7: I am afraid I do, Daniel.
Speaker 11: The tree that thou sawest, o King, the tree which
Speaker 11: grew and was strong, providing shelter and comfort to both
Speaker 11: birds and beasts of the earth. That tree, O King,
Speaker 11: is you. You have become a great monarch, and your
Speaker 11: dominion reaches to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 3: Why didn't we think of that?
Speaker 11: In your dream? You saw a watcher and an holy
Speaker 11: one coming down from heaven, saying, hew down the tree
Speaker 11: and destroy it, But leave the stump and its roots
Speaker 11: in the earth, bound with a band of iron and brass,
Speaker 11: and let his lot be with the beasts of the
Speaker 11: field till seven times pass over him.
Speaker 7: If the tree represents me, then then what is this
Speaker 7: meaning of the hewing down?
Speaker 11: Your kingdom shall be taken from you, o King.
Speaker 7: But the stump in the roots of the earth. Oh,
Speaker 7: what does that mean?
Speaker 11: Thy kingdom will not be taken away permanently?
Speaker 7: My roots are still there to spring up again.
Speaker 3: Is that it?
Speaker 11: Yes, your Majesty.
Speaker 7: In the dream, he that's me was to eat grass.
Speaker 7: His mind was to be changed to a beast's and
Speaker 7: the dew of heaven was to wet him until seven
Speaker 7: times pass over him. What does all that mean.
Speaker 11: Your majesty? You are to dwell with the beasts of
Speaker 11: the field.
Speaker 7: With the beasts of the field me It.
Speaker 11: Is the decree of the Most High God, Your majesty.
Speaker 7: How long will I I be.
Speaker 11: Like a beast until seven times pass over you? Or
Speaker 11: seven years, your majesty, until you come to know that
Speaker 11: the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives
Speaker 11: it to whom he will. But know this, your majesty,
Speaker 11: whereas it was commanded to leave the stump and the
Speaker 11: roots of the tree, thy kingdom shall be made sure
Speaker 11: for you from the time you know that Heaven rules
Speaker 11: even His Majesty's kingdom.
Speaker 7: These things, Danuel, are true. There is no altering the
Speaker 7: decree of your God.
Speaker 11: O King, Let my counsel be acceptable unto you. Break
Speaker 11: off your sins by right doing, and your iniquities by
Speaker 11: showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may be perhaps
Speaker 11: a lengthening of your tranquility.
Speaker 7: If I if I do this, if I leave sinning
Speaker 7: and worship the God of Heaven, this terrible thing will
Speaker 7: not happen to me.
Speaker 11: That is the decree from the throne of God. Your majesty,
Speaker 11: Just how do I do this?
Speaker 3: This right doing? You speak of?
Speaker 11: Know this, o King? You are richly blessed with talent
Speaker 11: and ambition, kindness and understanding. Yet you have let self indulgence, pride,
Speaker 11: and the flattery of your officers cause you to exalt
Speaker 11: yourself above the God who has given you life and power.
Speaker 11: Repent and follow after the counsel of the God of Heaven,
Speaker 11: and the judgment of God will not fall on you.
Speaker 7: It shall be done Daniel.
Speaker 6: For a time the warning and counsel of Daniel was
Speaker 6: heeded by Nebukanezzar, but as the weeks and months passed,
Speaker 6: the king indulged his pride until he lost confidence in
Speaker 6: Daniel's interpretation of the dream and jested at his former field.
Speaker 3: My dear look about you.
Speaker 7: What do you see?
Speaker 1: What do I see?
Speaker 2: Many things, beautiful things, the lofty and mighty walls of Babylon,
Speaker 2: unrivaled in the world. I see magnificent buildings, well ordered streets,
Speaker 2: happy people. In short, my dear husband and King, I
Speaker 2: see Babylon, Babylon, the city beautiful, the city that is
Speaker 2: the wonder and marvel of the world.
Speaker 7: And what does it all signify? Babylon, everything around you,
Speaker 7: these hanging gardens, the palace, everything well.
Speaker 2: To me, my lord, it means that that God of
Speaker 2: Heaven has given you outstanding talents. He has accorded you
Speaker 2: rule over the most powerful nation in the world. He
Speaker 2: has blessed and is blessing.
Speaker 7: You say that again, please, the.
Speaker 2: God of Heaven has given me.
Speaker 7: That's what I thought you said. The God of Heaven
Speaker 7: hasn't done a thing for me. I did it myself.
Speaker 7: I built Babylon. I expanded my kingdom to the four
Speaker 7: corners of the earth. I and I alone did it.
Speaker 2: But I thought you told Daniel it was his God.
Speaker 7: It doesn't make any difference what I told Daniel that
Speaker 7: was weeks ago. Now I see that it wasn't any
Speaker 7: one but me, Me, King nebhuw Kadnezzar, Ruler of the Earth,
Speaker 7: build an extraordinary me. Understand.
Speaker 2: I understand that you're back to your old self.
Speaker 7: You bet, I am, and don't ever forget it.
Speaker 2: Long live King Nebuchadnezzar, Giver of life, Glory of Babylon,
Speaker 2: Son of the Gods. Long may he live and reign
Speaker 2: over Babylon.
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Speaker 6: Number Kodneszer, king of Bablon, was determined in his heart
Speaker 6: to obey the advice of Daniel and follow after the
Speaker 6: righteousness of God. But as the weeks and months passed,
Speaker 6: they can indulged his pride until he lost confidence in
Speaker 6: Daniel's interpretation of the dream and jested at his former fears.
Speaker 3: Scribe scribe, long live the King.
Speaker 7: Send messages to all my counselors except Daniel and his
Speaker 7: three companions, summon them to a special council meeting tomorrow
Speaker 7: at high No.
Speaker 6: Yes, your majesty, Long live the King, Long live the King.
Speaker 8: You're not worried, no, of course, not one.
Speaker 10: If the King wants us for some impossible task, what
Speaker 10: has decided to be headless?
Speaker 3: Fires get rid of us.
Speaker 8: I know what he wants, and just about what he
Speaker 8: is going to say, almost his exact words, Wise men, counselors,
Speaker 8: he will say, I have decided to re establish the
Speaker 8: worship of our own Babylonian God.
Speaker 3: What gives you the idea that his Majesty's going to say.
Speaker 8: That these things are religious? And I know religion. I
Speaker 8: am the high priest. His majesty grows weary of being
Speaker 8: subservient to Daniel and Daniel's God. The King's appetite for
Speaker 8: self indulgence and ambition are now reappearing. He will soon
Speaker 8: be his old self again, and with the proper help
Speaker 8: from us, the King will be even more anxious to
Speaker 8: receive personal glory and exaltation. I can practically hear the
Speaker 8: King as he greets us with his changed attitude. Wise men, astrologers, counselors,
Speaker 8: you are assembled here because I ordered it.
Speaker 7: You are the You are the Crown's official counselors. Know this.
Speaker 7: I am still King of Babylon. I am still master
Speaker 7: of my own destiny. I pay and pay homage.
Speaker 3: To no one.
Speaker 7: I am weary of heeding the counsel of Daniel and
Speaker 7: worship in his God. Henceforth, I shall heed my own counsel,
Speaker 7: and obey my own words, and worship our own God.
Speaker 3: Long live the King.
Speaker 6: Just one year from the day King Nebuchadnezzar had had
Speaker 6: a dream, he was proudly walking in the royal palace.
Speaker 7: I have made an important decision.
Speaker 3: Chief counselor, is your master?
Speaker 7: Has there ever been a monarch with more power than
Speaker 7: I possessed.
Speaker 3: Never, your majesty, that man not the.
Speaker 7: Greatest builder of all time.
Speaker 10: Even Nimrod, with his Tower of Babel, knew nothing whatsoever
Speaker 10: about building, compared to you, your magicy.
Speaker 7: Oh, my dear wise man. I shall therefore exhibit my
Speaker 7: greatness for all the world to admire. Whereas I have
Speaker 7: been given to kindness, justice and mercy, I shall become
Speaker 7: hard oppressive. I shall tax my people far beyond what
Speaker 7: they have known in the past, and I shall use
Speaker 7: the proceeds to build the greatest monumental grow greatness any
Speaker 7: man ever dreamed of. I shall build another hanging garden.
Speaker 3: Another one, your majesty.
Speaker 10: Yes, but your majesty, you've already built the most beautiful
Speaker 10: hanging garden all but none.
Speaker 3: Like this one.
Speaker 7: It shaly a wonder of the world, a monument to me,
Speaker 7: nebucad Nessar, Monarch of the world.
Speaker 10: Yes, your majesty, long live the King. Is not this
Speaker 10: great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power
Speaker 10: as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty.
Speaker 9: O King nebucad Nessar. The appointed time of thy judgment
Speaker 9: has come. The kingdom is departed from thee. They shall
Speaker 9: drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with
Speaker 9: the beasts of the field. They shall make thee to
Speaker 9: eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over
Speaker 9: the until thou know that the Most High ruleth in
Speaker 9: the kingdoms of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Speaker 10: Your majesty, your majesty will the thunder the lighting did it?
Speaker 3: But more like a like a mighty voice from him,
Speaker 3: and your majesty, what's the matter? Get away? Get away
Speaker 3: scribe God, God, help.
Speaker 10: Your majesty get away from wrong here, sir.
Speaker 11: Yes, God, his majesty is something wrong with his.
Speaker 10: Majesty, so he's suddenly gone bersirk, insane, grabby.
Speaker 3: Man, Sir, I'm not touching it.
Speaker 10: Call your man then, and have him catch his majesty
Speaker 10: and take him inside the palace.
Speaker 3: I can't, sir. Strict orders.
Speaker 11: We are never to touch the person of his Majesty
Speaker 11: upon pain.
Speaker 10: Of death, but we must not let his majesty be
Speaker 10: seen in this condition.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 3: Then close the gates and doors.
Speaker 10: Will you'll be confined to this portion of the palace
Speaker 10: and gardens, Yes, sir, do so. It was Yes, sir,
Speaker 10: I'll call an emergency meeting of the council.
Speaker 3: Are the facts, gentlemen? What is to be done about it?
Speaker 8: You say? He suddenly went insane, wildly insane.
Speaker 12: His Majesty's eyes turned cold, cruel, his fingers curled up
Speaker 12: like claws, and he began acting like a mediaca.
Speaker 3: An animal.
Speaker 8: Could it be? Could it be the fulfillment of the
Speaker 8: decree of Daniel's guard?
Speaker 12: Well I thought about that too, But no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 12: it can't be. And may I remind you that we
Speaker 12: are here to decide what to do about his majesty,
Speaker 12: not why or how it happened.
Speaker 8: And according to our law there is nothing we can do.
Speaker 8: We don't dare dethrone neb and put some of our
Speaker 8: own number on the throne. On the other hand, it
Speaker 8: is obvious he can't rule in his present condition.
Speaker 3: It also seems unwise to let his majesty be seen.
Speaker 3: Soon it would be known far and wide enough, our influence.
Speaker 10: On world affairs would cease, Egypt would rebel tired to
Speaker 10: the Armenia that all rebell and Babylon as a world
Speaker 10: empire would end.
Speaker 8: We must avoid that by all means. But how in
Speaker 8: interpreting the dream, did not Daniel tell nebuchad Nezer that
Speaker 8: he would live as a beast with the beast.
Speaker 3: That would solve our problem.
Speaker 8: Also, my dear fellows, his Majesty might not survive eating
Speaker 8: and sleeping with beasts. It would then be up to
Speaker 8: us to name his successor. Ah ha ha ha, all.
Speaker 10: In favor of driving his majesty out of Babylon and
Speaker 10: onto the wild beasts. So signify, first.
Speaker 1: Wyant the fish biting?
Speaker 9: Father, want to quit and go home?
Speaker 1: No, not yet, I want to catch at least one fish.
Speaker 9: Well, we'll stay an hour longer, all right, then we'll go.
Speaker 1: All right, father, Look what is that?
Speaker 9: What is what that animal? Well, I don't know. Looks
Speaker 9: like almost like a man.
Speaker 1: It's eating grass like a cow, and has long claws
Speaker 1: like a bird. It's in all fours like a lion.
Speaker 3: No, I know what it is. It is a man.
Speaker 9: That my son is the king of our great Babylon,
Speaker 9: King Nebuchadnezzar.
Speaker 1: How could that thing be king?
Speaker 9: He doesn't actually rule now, not since he's been in
Speaker 9: that condition as long as he lives.
Speaker 3: Though he is king, it's the law.
Speaker 1: How did he get that?
Speaker 9: Way he's being punished, so it said, seems as though
Speaker 9: he took all the credit to himself for building up
Speaker 9: the great Kingdom of Babylon. He wouldn't admit that the
Speaker 9: Most High God rules the kingdom of men and gives
Speaker 9: it to whom he will. So God humbled him.
Speaker 1: A god did that? Do gods really have that much power?
Speaker 9: It seems that Daniel's God, the God of creation does.
Speaker 6: In spite of all that Nebucannezzar's counselors could do, the
Speaker 6: world soon learned of the king's plight. For seven years,
Speaker 6: the world knew and marveled. For seven years, the once
Speaker 6: mighty monarch slept eight and lived with the beasts of
Speaker 6: the field. At the end of the seven years.
Speaker 7: I'd heard my names like claws, my skin, animal's skin,
Speaker 7: the dream Daniel, I was wrong. The God of Heaven
Speaker 7: does rule in the dominions of men. Him maketh kings,
Speaker 7: he taketh away, he creates, he destroys, great and mighty.
Speaker 3: Is the Most High High. Honor and praise him.
Speaker 7: His kingdom is from generation to generation, forever and never.
Speaker 7: The God of Heaven doeth according to his will in
Speaker 7: heaven and among the inhabitants of earth, and none can
Speaker 7: stay his hand. Great and mighty is thy name, O,
Speaker 7: God of Daniel. I thank THEE for the might of
Speaker 7: thy power and the justice I hear.
Speaker 1: The king is back, restored desanity.
Speaker 3: Nebulkaanzar is back. Now we'll have a king again.
Speaker 2: Nebukan Nezzar is return.
Speaker 11: He's sane once again. He sits on the throne of Babylon.
Speaker 3: He got that today. Long live the King of Nemican Nezzer.
Speaker 3: He's really back.
Speaker 8: Yes, he got back today, and he's sane. He's his
Speaker 8: old self again, ambitious, full of energy, wise and understanding.
Speaker 3: Are we still his special counselor?
Speaker 8: That remains to be seen?
Speaker 3: Is that why the special assembly is called in a session?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: No, His majesty the King has called a general assembly
Speaker 8: for all his subjects, has a special announcement to make.
Speaker 13: Lords, ladies, counselors, princes, all people of Babylon. His majesty
Speaker 13: King Nebukanazzar, will himself make an important announcement.
Speaker 7: Lovely, I Nebukdanezzar, King of Babylon, take this opportunity to
Speaker 7: make known to all people everywhere that the God of
Speaker 7: Heaven is mighty and just. His works are truth, his
Speaker 7: ways are just. I walked in pride, but he humbled me.
Speaker 7: For this I praised extol and honor, the King of Kings,
Speaker 7: the God of creation.
Speaker 6: This public proclamation, in which Nebucannezzar acknowledged the mercy and
Speaker 6: goodness and authority of God, was the last act of
Speaker 6: his life to be recorded in sacred history.
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