The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
The king replied, “I know for sure that you are stalling for time, because you see that my word is final.
The king hath answered and said, `Of a truth I know that time ye are gaining, because that ye have seen that the thing is gone from me,
The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the word is gone forth from me;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2