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Daniel 5:9

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Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
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  1. Daniel 5:6Rank 1 from verse 9
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    6Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

  2. Daniel 2:1Rank 2 from verse 9
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    1AND in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

  3. Isaiah 13:6–8Rank 3 from verse 9
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    6¶ Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

    7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

    8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

  4. Isaiah 21:2–4Rank 4 from verse 9
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    2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

    3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

    4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

  5. Jeremiah 6:24Rank 5 from verse 9
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    24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

  6. Daniel 10:8Rank 6 from verse 9
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    8Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

  7. Jeremiah 30:6Rank 7 from verse 9
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    6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

  8. Job 18:11–14Rank 8 from verse 9
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    11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

    12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

    13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

    14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

  9. Matthew 2:3Rank 9 from verse 9
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    3When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

  10. Psalms 18:14Rank 10 from verse 9
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    14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

  11. Psalms 48:6Rank 11 from verse 9
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    6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

  12. Revelation 6:15Rank 12 from verse 9
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    15And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

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Daniel 5:9

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king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

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troubled

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Disturbed, agitated, alarmed, perplexed, afflicted, burdened, unsettled, or caused to suffer inward, bodily, social, or outward disruption.

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COMBINED MEANING

countenance

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1. The face, or its appearance or expression. 2. Favour, regard, or presence expressed toward someone. 3. To favour or support.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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changed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of change, meaning to make or become different; to alter, exchange, replace, or pass from one state to another.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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lords

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Sense 1: Lords: masters, rulers, nobles, or owners. Sense 2: As a verb, rules or exercises dominion. In 'Lord of lords,' the lords are rulers over whom the Lord is supreme.

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5:5¶ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

5:6Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

5:7The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

5:8Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

5:9Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

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