The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.
⛓ Read Daniel 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Nebuchadnezzar confesses Daniel's God 'a God of gods and a Lord of kings' — the superlative-of-superlatives sovereignty formula behind 'Lord of lords, and King of kings.' Hays: distinctive collocation. Theodotion Dan 2:47.
High confidenceNebuchadnezzar to Daniel: 'your God is God of gods and Lord of kings' (LXX theos ton theon kai kyrios ton basileon) - principal Danielic source for the divine title 'KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS' (Rev 19:16; cf. 17:14). Verbal coherence high.
High confidenceNebuchadnezzar confesses Daniel's God as 'God of gods, and Lord of kings.' The royal-supremacy formula praising the God who is over all kings parallels 'King of kings, and Lord of lords.' Reflects the apocalyptic vocabulary of divine kingship behind v.15.
Medium confidence'Your God is... a revealer of mysteries, since you could reveal this mystery' reinforces the Danielic provenance of 'the mystery of his will' made known. Recurrence within Daniel 2 strengthens the allusion; medium because it overlaps with 2:28-29 rather than adding distinct wording.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Nebuchadnezzar's falling and confession to Daniel—'Truly your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, a revealer of mysteries'—parallels the unbeliever falling on his face when 'the secrets of his heart are revealed' (14:25). Both pair the disclosure of hidden things with a pagan ruler's prostration and confession of the true God; the revelation-of-secrets motif strengthens the coherence.
Medium confidenceDaniel 2:47 confesses God as 'a revealer of mysteries' precisely in a Gentile (Babylonian) royal setting, which coheres with Paul's point that the now-revealed mystery concerns the Gentiles' inclusion. The link is thematic and reinforcing rather than verbal, so volume is faint.
Low confidence