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Daniel 5:8

WEB

8Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.

KJV

8Then[+] came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

BSB

8So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.

FBV

8However, after [+] all the king's wise men had come in, they could not read the writing or explain to him what it meant.


Extra References

Daniel 2:27

27Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;


Genesis 41:8

8In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.


Daniel 4:7

7Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told them the dream, but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.


Isaiah 47:12-15

12Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail. 13You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you. 14Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by. 15The things that you labored in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.


Daniel 5:15

15Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.


Isaiah 47:9

9But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.