the dream, and we will interpret it.

And the king answered and said unto the Chaldeans, It hath slipped my mind. If ye will not tell me the dream, and interpret it, ye shall perish utterly, and your houses shall be shamefully destroyed.

But if ye shall tell me the dream, and interpret it, ye shall have gifts, and offerings, and great honour from me. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.

And they answered again, and said: Let the king saw his servants the dream, and we will interpret it.

And the king answered and said, Verily I perceive that ye seek respite, because ye see that it hath slipped from me.

But if ye will not tell me the dream, then the judgment shall be upon you, as ye have purposed to speak lies and poems before me, until the time be past. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye have the interpretation.

And the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said unto him, There is not a man upon earth that can say what the king requireth. Neither is there any king, no matter how great or powerful he may be, who can ask this of any astrologer or wise man or Chaldean.

For that which the king requireth is too high, neither is there any that can speak it before the king, save the gods, which dwell not with men.

And the king was very wroth, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death.

And the sentence came to pass, that the wise men should be put to death. And Daniel and his companions were sought to be put to death.

And Daniel heard the sentence and the commandment of the king’s chief judge, which went out to slay the wise men of Babylon.

And he began to say unto Arioch the king’s reeve, Why is such a stern judgment gone forth from the king? And Arioch shewed it unto Daniel.

Then Daniel went up, and besought the king to give him time, that he might tell the interpretation unto the king.

And Daniel went home, and shewed these things unto his fellows, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

That they would ask mercy of God from heaven for this hidden thing, that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Then was this hidden thing revealed unto Daniel by a vision in the night.

And Daniel praised the LORD from heaven, and began to say, Blessed be the name of the LORD for ever and ever: for his is both wisdom and strength.

He changeth the time and the hour; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and understanding unto them that have understanding; 22. He revealeth that which is deep and hid; he knoweth that which is in darkness: for with him is all light.

I thank thee, and praise thee, O God of my fathers, that thou hast given me wisdom and strength, and hast now revealed unto me that which we have asked of thee; that is, thou hast revealed unto us the king’s cause.

Then Daniel went up to Arioch, which had a commandment from the king to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said unto him thus, Thou shalt not destroy the wise men of Babylon; but bring me up to the king, and I will tell the king the interpretation.

And Arioch hasted and brought Daniel up before the king, and said unto him, There is found one of the captives of Judah that can give the king an interpretation.

And the king answered and said unto Daniel, whom they called Belteshazzar: Art thou he that can show me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?

And Daniel began before the king, and said, The secret thing which the king requireth of the wise men, and of the learned, and of the astrologers, and of the soothsayers, is not in their ability to tell the king,

But GOD from heaven, who is able to reveal hidden things, who revealed to Nebuchadnezzar the things that were to come to pass in the days to come.

Thy dream and thy vision, when thou wast asleep, were because thou, O king, wast thinking in thy bed how it would be afterward: and he that revealeth hidden things hath shewed thee how it would be.

Thus is this hidden thing revealed unto me, not by my wisdom, as though it were greater than all that live; but that the interpretation might be made known unto the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thine heart.

Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a very great and high image stood before thee, terrible to behold.

His head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his loins of brass; 33. His legs were iron; his feet were part iron and part clay.

These things thou sawest, until a stone was brought down without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, which were iron and clay, and brake them in pieces.

And the iron, and the clay, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, were broken in pieces together, and became as the chaff of the summer threshingfloor; and the wind wove them together, that they were nowhere to be found. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Thirty-six: this is the dream. Now let us say the interpretation before the king.

you, O king, are a king of kings, to whom GOD has given from heaven kingdom, power, strength and honor

And all that dwell in the midst of men, and the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the air, have he delivered into thine hand, and given thee dominion over all things. Thou art the golden head.

After thee shall arise another kingdom less than thine. After the third kingdom, which is ancient, which shall reign over all the earth.

The fourth shall be hard as iron. For as iron breaketh and bruiseth all things; yea, as iron breaketh all things, so shall it break and bruise all things.

And when thou hast seen the feet and toes of part of clay, and part of iron, it shall be a
divided kingdom: but the plant of the iron shall remain in it, as thou hast seen iron mixed with clay.

And the toes of his feet being part iron, and part clay, it shall be part strong kingdom, and part weak kingdom.

And when thou hast seen iron mixed with clay, they shall be mixed together after the blood of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron cannot be mixed with clay.

But in the days of such kingdoms God shall set up from heaven a kingdom that shall never be destroyed; and his kingdom shall come upon no other people. It will crush and destroy all these kingdoms, but it will remain forever.

As thou sawest a stone torn down from the mountain without hands, which brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold. So the great God showed the king how things would be afterward; and this is certainly the dream, and the interpretation is right.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king fell on his face, and worshipped before Daniel, and commanded that they should offer him meat offering and incense.

And the king answered Daniel, and said, There is no doubt that your God is a God above all gods, and a Lord above all kings, who can reveal hidden things, because thou hast been able to reveal this hidden thing.

And the king exalted Daniel, and gave him great and many gifts, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and set him over all the wise men of Babylon.

And Daniel desired of the king that he would set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the coasts of Babylon: and Daniel stayed with the king in his court.
(Daniel)
Chapter 3
The friends of Daniel’s steadfastness and fear of God.

And king Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, threescore cubits high and six cubits broad, and set it in the land of Babylon in the valley of Dura.

And king Nebuchadnezzar sent for the princes, and the lords, and the governors, and the judges, and the reeves, and the counsellors, and the officers, and all the mighty men of the land, that they should come together to dedicate the image which king Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

And the princes, and the lords, and the governors, and the judges, and the reeves, and the counsellors, and the officers, and all the mighty men of the land, came together to dedicate the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

And Ehrenhold cried aloud: Let this be told you, you nations, people and tongues: 5. When ye hear the sound of the trumpets, and of the drums, and of the harps, and of the violins, and of the psalteries, and of the lutes, and of all kinds of instruments, then ye shall fall down, and worship the graven image, which Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up.

And whosoever shall not then fall down and worship shall be cast into the fiery furnace from that hour.

And when they heard the sound of the trumpets, and of the drums, and of the harps, and of the violins, and of the psalteries, and of all kinds of instruments, all nations and people and tongues fell down, and worshipped the graven image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set.

And from that time certain Chaldean men came and accused