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The king spakep, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

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Luke 12:19‑20• ¹⁹and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
²⁰But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:19‑20)

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Dan. 5:20• ²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him; (Dan. 5:20)

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Psa. 73:8• ⁸They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily: (Psa. 73:8)

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Prov. 16:18• ¹⁸Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Prov. 16:18)

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Hab. 1:15‑16• ¹⁵He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:
¹⁶therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty. (Hab. 1:15‑16)

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Hab. 2:4‑5• ⁴Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright within him: but the just shall live by his faith.
⁵And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples. (Hab. 2:4‑5)

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Luke 12:19‑20• ¹⁹and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
²⁰But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:19‑20)

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Luke 14:11• ¹¹for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted. (Luke 14:11)

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1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)

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Gen. 10:10• ¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Gen. 10:10)

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Gen. 11:2‑9• ²And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.
³And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
⁴And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
⁵And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
⁶And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.
⁷Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
⁸And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.
⁹Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. (Gen. 11:2‑9)

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Rev. 16:19• ¹⁹And the great city was divided into three parts; and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. (Rev. 16:19)

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Rev. 17:5• ⁵and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth. (Rev. 17:5)

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Rev. 18:10,21• ¹⁰standing afar off, through fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment is come.
²¹And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all; (Rev. 18:10,21)

that.

1 Chron. 29:12‑14• ¹²and riches and glory are of thee, and thou rulest over everything; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it is to make all great and strong.
¹³And now, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
¹⁴But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer willingly after this manner? for all is of thee, and of that which is from thy hand have we given thee. (1 Chron. 29:12‑14)

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2 Chron. 2:5‑6• ⁵And the house that I will build is great; for great is our God above all gods.
⁶But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? And who am I that I should build him a house, except to burn sacrifice before him? (2 Chron. 2:5‑6)

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Isa. 10:8‑15• ⁸For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?
⁹Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
¹⁰As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,--and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
¹¹--shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?
¹²And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
¹³For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit on thrones;
¹⁴and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.
¹⁵--Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up him who is not wood! (Isa. 10:8‑15)

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Isa. 37:24‑25• ²⁴By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I will enter into its furthest height, into the forest of its fruitful field.
²⁵I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor. (Isa. 37:24‑25)

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Ezek. 28:2‑5• ²Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a *god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas, (and thou art a man, and not *God,) and thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:
³behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! nothing secret is obscure for thee;
⁴by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
⁵by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches. (Ezek. 28:2‑5)

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Ezek. 29:3• ³speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which saith, My river is mine own, and I made it for myself. (Ezek. 29:3)

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Dan. 5:18‑19• ¹⁸O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;
¹⁹and for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, 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 exalted, and whom he would he humbled. (Dan. 5:18‑19)

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Esther 1:4• ⁴when he shewed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the splendid magnificence of his grandeur many days, a hundred and eighty days. (Esther 1:4)

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Psa. 49:20• ²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. (Psa. 49:20)

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Psa. 104:1• ¹Bless Jehovah, O my soul! Jehovah my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with majesty and splendour; (Psa. 104:1)

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Psa. 145:5‑12• ⁵I will speak of the glorious splendour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
⁶And they shall tell of the might of thy terrible acts; and thy great deeds will I declare.
⁷They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
⁸Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.
⁹Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.
¹⁰All thy works shall praise thee, Jehovah, and thy saints shall bless thee.
¹¹They shall tell of the glory of thy kingdom, and speak of thy power;
¹²To make known to the children of men his mighty acts, and the glorious splendour of his kingdom. (Psa. 145:5‑12)

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1 Cor. 10:31• ³¹Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory. (1 Cor. 10:31)

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Rev. 21:24‑26• ²⁴And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory to it.
²⁵And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.
²⁶And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations to it. (Rev. 21:24‑26)

• And what was the subject of his meditations? His own greatness, power, and majesty....All this was the glorification of himself, the full-blown pride of the human heart, begotten of his exaltation and prosperity—the pride that goeth before destruction....God was not in all his thoughts, nor even his own false gods; his vision was bounded by himself—himself as the source of all his glory, and himself as the object of all his works. (“Daniel 4” by E. Dennett)

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the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdomb by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

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i.e. the royal residence.