Daniel 2:4Modern English VersionThen the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever. Tell your servants the dream, and we will tell the interpretation.” See the chapter |
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream, or its interpretation, trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, if only the dream was for those who hate you, and its interpretation for your enemies!
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the officials, the counselors, and the captains have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.