9 and said, “When the king wakes up, someone will give him the writing. Whoever the king and the three princes of Persia judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as it is written.” (WEB) 10 The first wrote, “Wine is the strongest.” (WEB) 11 The second wrote, “The king is strongest.” (WEB)
1 Esdras 3:9–11
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1 Esdras 3:16–18
16 He said, “Call the young men, and they shall explain their own sentences. So they were called and came in. (WEB) 17 They said to them, “Explain what you have written.” Then the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine, began (WEB) 18 and said this: “O sirs, how exceedingly… (WEB)
1 Esdras 4:1–2
1 Then the second, who had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, (WEB) 2 “O sirs, don’t men excel in strength who rule over the sea and land, and all things in them? (WEB)
1 Esdras 3:4–6
4 Then the three young men of the bodyguard, who guarded the king, spoke one to another: (WEB) 5 “Let every one of us state what one thing is strongest. King Darius will give him whose statement seems wiser than the others great gifts and great honors in token of victor… (WEB)
Daniel 5:23–25
23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone,… 24 …
1 Esdras 4:11–13
11 and these keep watch around him. None of them may depart and do his own business. They don’t disobey him in anything. (WEB) 12 O sirs, how could the king not be the strongest, seeing that he is obeyed like this?” Then he stopped talking. (WEB) 13 Then the third, who had spoken o… (WEB)
Ezekiel 37:19–21
19 you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single sti…
1 Esdras 3:23–24
23 But when they awake from their wine, they don’t remember what they have done. (WEB) 24 O sirs, isn’t wine the strongest, seeing that it forces people to do this?” And when he had said this, he stopped speaking. (WEB)
2 Esdras 12:14–16
14 Twelve kings will reign in it, one after another. (WEB) 15 Of those, the second will begin to reign, and will reign a longer time than others of the twelve. (WEB) 16 This is the interpretation of the twelve wings which you saw. (WEB)
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