uSee 1 Sam. 2:8
Daniel 4:10-17
10 aThe visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and bbehold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great. 11 cThe tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. 12 dIts leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. eThe beasts of the field found shade under it, and fthe birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.13“I saw in gthe visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, ha watcher, ia holy one, came down from heaven. 14He jproclaimed aloud and said thus: k‘Chop down the tree and llop off its branches, mstrip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. nLet the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches. 15But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth. 16Let his mind be changed from a man’s, and let a beast’s mind be given to him; oand let seven periods of time ppass over him. 17The sentence is by the decree of qthe watchers, the decision by the word of rthe holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High srules the kingdom of men tand gives it to whom he will and usets over it the lowliest of men.’
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