Bible verses about "the euphrates river" | NSB

¹⁴ The name of the third river is the Tigris. It runs along the east side of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹ King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine with them. ² While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the Temple in Jerusalem. This way the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them. ³ Then they brought the gold vessels that were taken out of the Temple of the House of God that was at Jerusalem. The king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. ⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood, and of stone. ⁵ In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote above the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then the king's countenance (appearance) changed in him. His thoughts troubled him. The joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other. ⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. / The king spoke to the wise men of Babylon: »Whoever reads this writing, and shows me the interpretation of it will be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck. He will be the third ruler in the kingdom«. ⁸ All the king’s wise men came. But they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation. ⁹ King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his appearance changed. His lords were perplexed. ¹⁰ The queen came into the banquet hall. She said: »O king, may you live for a very long time: do not let your thoughts trouble you or change your countenance. ¹¹ »There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods. In your fathers day, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers. ¹² »Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, has an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding for interpreting dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving doubts. Let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.« ¹³ Daniel was brought before the king. The king spoke to Daniel: »Are you that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? ¹⁴ »I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. ¹⁵ »The wise men and the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing, and make known the interpretation of it. But they could not show the interpretation. ¹⁶ »I have heard that you can give interpretations and dissolve doubts. If you can read the writing and make the interpretation known to me you will be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.« ¹⁷ Daniel answered the king: »Keep your gifts and give your rewards to another. I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation. ¹⁸ »O you king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty. ¹⁹ »Because of the greatness he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he chose he killed and whom he chose he kept alive. Whom he chose he raised up, and whom he chose he put down. ²⁰ »But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride he dealt proudly. He was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him: ²¹ »He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts. His dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will. ²² »You his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you know all this. ²³ »You lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of his house before you and your lords, wives and concubines. They drank wine from them. You praise the gods of silver and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which you do not see, nor hear, nor know. You have not glorified the God whose hand holds your breath and life. ²⁴ »Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed. ²⁵ »This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN. ²⁶ »This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end; ²⁷ »TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. ²⁸ »PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.« ²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. ³¹ Darius the Mede received the kingdom. He was sixty-two years old.

² »You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting (days of antiquity) (ancient times).

¹ THE REVELATION GOD GAVE TO JESUS CHRIST, so that he could tell his servants the things that must soon take place. Christ then sent his angel to communicate the symbolic message to his servant John. ² John testified to the word of God, the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all that he saw. ³ Happy is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and obey the things written in it: for the time is near. ⁴ John, to the seven congregations in Asia: May you have grace and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; ⁵ And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood. ⁶ He made us to be a kingdom of kings and priests to his God and Father. To him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen. ⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen. ⁸ »I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end,« says Jehovah (YHWH) God, »the one who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty (all ruling) (universal sovereign).« (Isaiah 48:12) ⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in tribulation and kingdom and perseverance (patience) of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day when I heard a strong voice behind me. It sounded like a trumpet. ¹¹ It said: »Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven congregations in Asia: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.« ¹² I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. When I turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands. ¹³ There was someone like the Son of man in the midst of the seven lamp stands. He was clothed with a garment that reached down to the feet, and girded at the chest with a golden girdle. ¹⁴ His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were like a flame of fire. ¹⁵ His feet were like fine brass glowing in a furnace. His voice sounded like many rushing waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars. A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth. His appearance was like the shinning sun in full strength. ¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: »Do not fear. I am the first and the last: ¹⁸ »I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave. ¹⁹ »Write the things that you have seen and the things that are and the things that will be. ²⁰ »This is the secret of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven congregations. The seven lamp stands that you saw are the seven congregations.«

²⁴ »Every place on which the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea.

⁴ »From the wilderness and nearby Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun (to the west), shall be your coast.

¹⁵ Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. He will wave his hand, his mighty Spirit, over the (Euphrates) River. He will strike it into seven streams and make men walk over on dry land.

¹ Jehovah told me: »Go and buy a linen belt. Wear it on your hips for a while, but do not put it in any water.« ² So I bought a belt and put it on my hips. ³ Then Jehovah said: ⁴ »Take off the linen belt. Go to the Euphrates River and hide the belt in a crack between some large rocks.« ⁵ And that is what I did, just as Jehovah commanded. ⁶ Some time later Jehovah said: »Go back and get the linen belt.« ⁷ I went back and dug the belt out of the hiding place, but the cloth had rotted, and the linen belt was ruined. It was good for nothing.

⁴ I was on the shore of the great river, Hiddekel (Tigris River) on the twenty-fourth day of the first month.

¹⁸ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: »To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

¹² The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates. Its water was dried up so that the way might be prepared for the kings from the east. ¹³ I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴ They are demonic spirits, working signs, which go to the kings of the earth, of the whole world. They gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ »Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his outer garment, that he does not walk naked and they see his shame.«

¹⁴ It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.

¹⁰ A river watering the garden flowed from Eden. From there it was separated into four headwaters. ¹¹ The name of the first river is the Pishon. It winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. ¹² The gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there. ¹³ The name of the second river is the Gihon. It winds through the entire land of Cush. ¹⁴ The name of the third river is the Tigris. It runs along the east side of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹² The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates. Its water was dried up so that the way might be prepared for the kings from the east.