Daniel 2:5 The thing is gone from me or My decision is firm? The Book of Daniel - a Comparative Study of the Bogus Bible Babble Buffet versions The purpose of this study is to show that not all bibles teach the same things. Those that promote the multiple modern versions like to say that all Bibles have the same message. This simply is not true. Even when the same texts are being used, the resultant English translations often differ radically one from another. Sometimes the exact opposite meaning is found in one when compared to the other. I firmly believe God has been faithful to His promises to preserve His pure words, both as to text and meaning, and He has done this in the King James Bible. The versions like the New KJV, the NASB and the NIV often do not agree with the King James Bible, nor even among themselves. The result of having upwards of 200 different English bibles, with different texts and different meanings in hundreds of verses, is that many Christians find themselves asking the first question recorded in the Holy Scriptures - Yeah, hath God said....? Another King James Bible believer recently wrote: Using more than one version, thinking neither is perfect, does nothing but convince men that their minds are their final authority as to what God has said. Daniel 2:5,8 The thing is gone from me Daniel 2:4-5 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. The king answered and said to the Chadeans, 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. 2:7-8 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see THE THING IS GONE FROM ME. The thing is gone from me, meaning that he had forgotten the dream, is the reading of the RV 1885, the ASV 1901, Coverdale 1535, the Great Bible 1540, Matthews Bible 1549, the Bishops Bible 1568, the Geneva Bible 1587, Websters translation 1833, Youngs 1898, Douay 1950, Spanish Reina Valera, the Third Millenium Bible 1998, World English Bible, and the Hebrew Names Version. Other English Bible that also read THE THING IS GONE FROM ME, meaning that he had forgotten what it was he dreamed, are The Word of Yah 1993, the Sacred Scriptures Family of Yah 2001, the Context Group Version 2007, the Bond Slave Version 2009, Hebraic Transliteration Scripture 2010, Biblos Interlinear Bible 2011, Conservative Bible 2011 - THE THING IS GONE FROM ME, World English Bible 2012 - THE THING HAS GONE FROM ME. Living Bible 1971 - “But the king replied, “I tell you THE DREAM IS GONE - I CAN’T REMEMBER IT.” God’s First Truth 1999 says: “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was so troubled therewith, THAT I HAVE CLEAN FORGOTTEN WHAT I DREAMED.” The Judaica Press Complete Tanach 2004 says: “The king replied and said to the Chaldeans, THE MATTER HAS ESCAPED ME. If you do not let me know the dream and its meaning, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be made into a dungheap.” Jubilee Bible 2010 - THE THING IS GONE FROM MY MEMORY The Work of Gods Children Illustrated Bible 2011 has: THE THING IS GONE OUT OF MY MIND. The Bogus Bible Babble Buffet Versions - However instead of the meaning of I have forgotten the dream, beginning with the liberal RSV, the NKJV, NIV, ESV and NASB have changed the meaning to: THE COMMAND FROM ME IS FIRM (NASB), THIS IS WHAT I HAVE FIRMLY DECIDED (NIV), MY DECISION IS FIRM (NKJV, NET). According to these versions, Nebuchadnezzar had not forgotten the dream, but had only made a firm decision to punish them if they could not make the dream known. The meaning is not at all the same as that of the King James Bible and all the others, including the previous Revised Version and American Standard Versions. Names of God Bible 2011 (critical text version) - I MEANT WHAT I SAID. The Voice (another critical text version) - MY MIND IS MADE UP. MY DECREE IS FIRM. Some versions are just goofy. The Ancient Roots Translinear bible 2007 says: EVAPORATE THE TALK FROM ME. The Catholic Connection The previous Douay-Rheims 1610 and the 1950 Douay version both have king Nebuchadnezzar saying: THE THING IS GONE OUT OF MY MIND. But the more modern Catholic versions like the St. Joseph New American bible 1970 reads like the NKJV, NIV, NASB, ESV saying: THIS IS WHAT I HAVE DECIDED and the New Jerusalem bible 1985 - THIS IS MY FIRM RESOLVE. And the Jehovah Witness New World Translation reads: THE WORD IS BEING PROMULGATED BY ME. John Gill remarks: The subject of this chapter is a dream which Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed, but had forgot; upon which he calls his magicians and astrologers together, to tell him it, and the interpretation of it. Jamieson, Faussett & Brown: The thing--that is, The dream, is gone from me. GESENIUS translates, The decree is gone forth from me, namely, that you shall be executed, if you do not tell both the dream and the interpretation. English Version is simpler, which supposes the king himself to have forgotten the dream. Matthew Henry: The trial that he made of his magicians and astrologers whether they could tell him what his dream was, which he had forgotten. They were immediately sent for, to show the king his dreams, v. 2. There are many things which we retain the impressions of, and yet have lost the images of the things; though we cannot tell what the matter was, we know how we were affected with it; so it was with this king. His dream had slipped out of his mind, and he could not possibly recollect it, but he was confident he should know it if he heard it again. John Wesley: In this chapter we have, The perplexity of Nebuchadnezzar through his dream which he had forgotten, and which the magicians could not tell him. The King James Bible is right, as always.
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