Daniel 5:23 Cross References
Daniel 5:23
23: For you have defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone--gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
Job 12:10
- For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of all humanity.
Daniel 4:37
- "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble those who are proud."
Jeremiah 10:23
- I know, LORD, that a person's life is not his own. No one is able to plan his own course.
Isaiah 37:23
- `Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? Against whom did you raise your voice? At whom did you look in such proud condescension? It was the Holy One of Israel!
Psalms 115:4
- Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
- They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
- They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
- or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
- And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
Isaiah 2:12
- In that day the LORD Almighty will punish the proud, bringing them down to the dust.
Job 31:4
- He sees everything I do and every step I take.
Jeremiah 50:29
- "Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Proverbs 20:24
- How can we understand the road we travel? It is the LORD who directs our steps.
Isaiah 37:19
- And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all--only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.
Habakkuk 2:18
- "What have you gained by worshiping all your man-made idols? How foolish to trust in something made by your own hands! What fools you are to believe such lies!
- How terrible it will be for you who beg lifeless wooden idols to save you. You ask speechless stone images to tell you what to do. Can an idol speak for God? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.
2 Kings 14:10
- You have indeed destroyed Edom and are very proud about it. Be content with your victory and stay at home! Why stir up trouble that will bring disaster on you and the people of Judah?"
Hebrews 4:13
- Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done.
Romans 1:21
- Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.
- Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.
- And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds and animals and snakes.
Psalms 139:3
- You chart the path ahead of me and tell me where to stop and rest. Every moment you know where I am.
Revelation 13:5
- Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do what he wanted for forty-two months.
- And he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and all who live in heaven, who are his temple.
Judges 16:23
- The Philistine leaders held a great festival, offering sacrifices and praising their god, Dagon. They said, "Our god has given us victory over our enemy Samson!"
Genesis 2:7
- And the LORD God formed a man's body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person.
Isaiah 42:5
- God, the LORD, created the heavens and stretched them out. He created the earth and everything in it. He gives breath and life to everyone in all the world. And it is he who says,
1 Samuel 5:1
- After the Philistines captured the Ark of God, they took it from the battleground at Ebenezer to the city of Ashdod.
- They carried the Ark of God into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside the idol of Dagon.
- But when the citizens of Ashdod went to see it the next morning, Dagon had fallen with his face to the ground in front of the Ark of the LORD! So they set the idol up again.
- But the next morning the same thing happened--the idol had fallen face down before the Ark of the LORD again. This time his head and hands had broken off and were lying in the doorway. Only the trunk of his body was left intact.
- That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor anyone who enters the temple of Dagon will step on its threshold.
Habakkuk 2:4
- "Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked; but the righteous will live by their faith.
Ezekiel 28:2
- "Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message from the Sovereign LORD: In your great pride you claim, `I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in the heart of the sea.' But you are only a man and not a god, though you boast that you are like a god.
Daniel 5:2
- While Belshazzar was drinking, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem, so that he and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
- So they brought these gold cups taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
- They drank toasts from them to honor their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
Psalms 104:29
- But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.
Psalms 135:15
- Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
- They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
- They cannot hear with their ears or smell with their noses.
Genesis 14:19
- Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
Ezekiel 28:5
- Yes, your wisdom has made you very rich, and your riches have made you very proud.
Acts 17:28
- For in him we live and move and exist. As one of your own poets says, 'We are his offspring.'
- And since this is true, we shouldn't think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.
Isaiah 33:10
- But the LORD says: "I will stand up and show my power and might.
Psalms 146:4
- When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a moment all their plans come to an end.
Job 34:14
- If God were to take back his spirit and withdraw his breath,
- all life would cease, and humanity would turn again to dust.
Acts 17:25
- and human hands can't serve his needs--for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need there is.
Isaiah 46:6
- Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!
- They carry it around on their shoulders, and when they set it down, it stays there. It cannot even move! And when someone prays to it, there is no answer. It has no power to get anyone out of trouble.
Ezekiel 31:10
- "Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because it became proud and arrogant, and because it set itself so high above the others, reaching to the clouds,
1 Corinthians 8:4
- So now, what about it? Should we eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God and no other.
Psalms 115:16
- The heavens belong to the LORD, but he has given the earth to all humanity.
1 Timothy 3:6
- An elder must not be a new Christian, because he might be proud of being chosen so soon, and the Devil will use that pride to make him fall.
Ezekiel 28:17
- Your heart was filled with pride because of all your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth and exposed you to the curious gaze of kings.