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and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:2", "text": "Then the king commanded to call the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams; so they came and stood before the king." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:3", "text": "And the king said to them, \"I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.\"" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:4", "text": "Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: \"O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.\"" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:5", "text": "The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, \"The word from me is certain: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a refuse-heap." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:6", "text": "But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.\"" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:7", "text": "They answered a second time and said, \"Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.\"" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:8", "text": "The king answered and said, \"I know with certainty that you are buying time, because you see that the word from me is firm—" },{ "n": 9, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:9", "text": "that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one verdict for you; you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me until the situation should change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can declare to me its interpretation.\"" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:10", "text": "The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, \"There is not a man upon the earth who can declare the king's matter; for no great king or ruler has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:11", "text": "And the thing that the king asks is difficult, and there is no other who can declare it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.\"" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:12", "text": "Because of this the king was furious and very angry, and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:13", "text": "So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:14", "text": "Then Daniel returned answer with prudence and discretion to Arioch, the chief of the king's guard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:15", "text": "he answered and said to Arioch the king's officer, \"Why is the decree from the king so urgent?\" Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:16", "text": "And Daniel went in and asked of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would declare to the king the interpretation." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:17", "text": "Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions—" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:18", "text": "that they might ask compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:19", "text": "Then was the mystery revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:20", "text": "Daniel answered and said: \"Blessed be the name of God from age to age, for wisdom and might are his." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:21", "text": "He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:22", "text": "He reveals the deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:23", "text": "To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter.\"" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:24", "text": "Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said to him: \"Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.\"" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:25", "text": "Then Arioch brought Daniel in before the king in haste, and said to him, \"I have found a man among the exiles of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.\"" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:26", "text": "The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar: \"Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?\"" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:27", "text": "Daniel answered before the king and said, \"The mystery which the king has asked, neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor diviners can declare to the king;" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:28", "text": "but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed are these:" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:29", "text": "as for you, O king, your thoughts came to you upon your bed concerning what should come hereafter; and he who reveals mysteries has made known to you what shall come." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:30", "text": "But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me not because of any wisdom that I have more than any other living being, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:31", "text": "You, O king, were looking, and behold, a great image! This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you; and its appearance was terrible." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:32", "text": "The head of that image was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze," },{ "n": 33, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:33", "text": "its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:34", "text": "You were looking, until a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it struck the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:35", "text": "Then was the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:36", "text": "This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king." },{ "n": 37, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:37", "text": "You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory;" },{ "n": 38, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:38", "text": "and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens he has given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold." },{ "n": 39, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:39", "text": "And after you shall arise another kingdom, inferior to you; and a third kingdom of bronze, which shall bear rule over all the earth." },{ "n": 40, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:40", "text": "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; for iron breaks in pieces and shatters all things; and as iron that crushes all these, so it shall break in pieces and crush." },{ "n": 41, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:41", "text": "And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of iron, just as you saw iron mixed with miry clay." },{ "n": 42, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:42", "text": "And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle." },{ "n": 43, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:43", "text": "And whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron does not mingle with clay." },{ "n": 44, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:44", "text": "And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." },{ "n": 45, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:45", "text": "Forasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—a great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter; and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure." },{ "n": 46, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:46", "text": "Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and did homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and sweet incense be presented to him." },{ "n": 47, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:47", "text": "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 mysteries, seeing you have been able to reveal this mystery.\"" },{ "n": 48, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:48", "text": "Then the king made Daniel great and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon." },{ "n": 49, "refId": "DAN-WOH-2:49", "text": "And Daniel petitioned the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel remained at the king's court." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/daniel-woh/chapters/2", "book": "/v1/library/books/daniel-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/daniel-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }