New American Standard Bible 2020

Daniel 2:5-13

5The king replied to the Chaldeans, “The command 1from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be 2 3torn limb from limb and your houses will be turned into a rubbish heap. 6But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me 4gifts 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 5tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.” 8The king replied, “I know for certain that you are trying to buy time, because you have perceived that the command 6from me is firm, 9that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only 7one 8decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt 9words before me until the 10situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, so that I may 11know that you can declare to me its interpretation.” 10The Chaldeans answered 12the king and said, “There is no person on earth who could declare the matter 13to the king, because no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any 14soothsayer priest, sorcerer, or Chaldean. 11Moreover, the thing which the king demands is difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it 15to the king except 16gods, whose 17dwelling place is not with mortal flesh.”

12Because of this, the king became 18angry and extremely furious, and he gave orders to kill all the wise men of Babylon. 13So the 19decree was issued that the wise men be killed; and they looked for 20Daniel and his friends, to 21kill them.

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Notes

1. Daniel 2:5 Another reading is is issued by me ↩
2. Daniel 2:5 Lit turned into limbs ↩
3. Daniel 2:5 Ezra 6:11; Dan 2:12; 3:29 ↩
4. Daniel 2:6 Dan 2:48; 5:7, 16, 29 ↩
5. Daniel 2:7 Dan 2:4 ↩
6. Daniel 2:8 See note 1 v 5 ↩
7. Daniel 2:9 Esth 4:11; Dan 3:15 ↩
8. Daniel 2:9 Or verdict ↩
9. Daniel 2:9 Lit word ↩
10. Daniel 2:9 Lit time ↩
11. Daniel 2:9 Is 41:23 ↩
12. Daniel 2:10 Lit before the ↩
13. Daniel 2:10 Lit of ↩
14. Daniel 2:10 Dan 2:2, 27 ↩
15. Daniel 2:11 Lit before ↩
16. Daniel 2:11 Gen 41:39; Dan 5:11 ↩
17. Daniel 2:11 Ex 29:45; Is 57:15 ↩
18. Daniel 2:12 Ps 76:10; Dan 2:5; 3:13, 19 ↩
19. Daniel 2:13 Or law ↩
20. Daniel 2:13 Dan 1:19, 20 ↩
21. Daniel 2:13 Lit be killed ↩

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