Daniel 2:4-11

4Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in 12Aramaic: “3O king, live forever! 4Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.” 5The king replied to the Chaldeans, “5The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be 67torn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap. 6But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me 8gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.” 7They answered a second time and said, “Let the king 9tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.” 8The king replied, “I know for certain that you are 10bargaining for time, inasmuch as you have seen that 11the command from me is firm, 9that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only 12one 13decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt 14words before me until the 15situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, that I may 16know that you can declare to me its interpretation.” 10The Chaldeans answered 17the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who could declare the matter 18for the king, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any 1920magician, conjurer or Chaldean. 11Moreover, the thing which the king demands is 21difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it 22to the king except 23gods, whose 24dwelling place is not with mortal flesh.”