Dan 2:12
For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise {men} of Babylon.
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Then Nebuchadnezzar in {his} rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: {therefore} he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. {full: Chaldee, filled}
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
The king's wrath {is} as the roaring of a lion; but his favour {is} as dew upon the grass.
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. {cut...: Chaldee, made pieces}
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {envy: or, indignation}
The wrath of a king {is as} messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
A stone {is} heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath {is} heavier than them both. {heavy: Heb. heaviness}
The fear of a king {is} as the roaring of a lion: {whoso} provoketh him to anger sinneth {against} his own soul.
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. {Raca: that is, Vain fellow}
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every {thing} that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai {be} of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
Then Nebuchadnezzar in {his} rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise {men} of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise {men} of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
The king's wrath {is} as the roaring of a lion; but his favour {is} as dew upon the grass.
Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so {was} the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by {his} chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him. {by his...: Heb. which was by the hand of his eunuchs}
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. {cut...: Chaldee, made pieces}
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. {Raca: that is, Vain fellow}
But Jesus called them {unto him}, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.