I was told that the gods have given you special powers and that you are intelligent and very wise.
The king said to him, “I had a dream, yet no one can explain what it means. I am told that you can interpret dreams.”
So the king said to them, “No one could possibly handle this better than Joseph, since the Spirit of God is with him.”
“You explain deep mysteries, because even the dark is light to you.
Finally, a young man named Daniel came in, and I told him the dream. The holy gods had given him special powers, and I had renamed him Belteshazzar after my own god.
When Daniel was brought in, the king said: So you are Daniel, one of the captives my father brought back from Judah!
Neither my advisers nor the men who talk with the spirits of the dead could read this writing or tell me what it means.
And he did his work so much better than the other governors and officials that the king decided to let him govern the whole kingdom.