Daniel 2:5-13 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The word went out from me: if ye will not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, ye shall be made pieces, and your houses shall be set dung-hills.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The word went out from me: if ye will not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, ye shall be made pieces, and your houses shall be set dung-hills. ⁶ And if ye shall show the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive from before me a gift and present, and great honor: therefore shove me the dream and its interpretation. ⁷ They answered a second time, and said, The king will say to his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation. ⁸ And the king answered and said, Certainly I know that ye buy the time, for which cause that ye saw that the word went out from me. ⁹ Enough if ye will not make known to me the dream, this one edict for you; and ye divided out the word of falsehood and this corruption to say before me, till that the time shall change: therefore say to me the dream and I shall know that ye will show me its interpretation. ¹⁰ The Chaldean answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the dry land that shall be able to show the king's word: for which cause that every king, leader, and ruler, asked not a word like this to any sacred scribe, and enchanter, and Chaldean. ¹¹ And the word the king asked will be made rare, and there is not another that will show it before the king except the gods that their dwelling is not with flesh. ¹² For this cause the king was in dignant and greatly angry, and he spake to destroy to all the wise of Babel. ¹³ And the edict went forth and the wise men being killed; and they sought Daniel and his associates to be killed.