answered The king {answered} and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. answered They {answered} again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it. answered The king {answered} and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. answered The Chaldeans {answered} before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter: therefore [there is] no king, lord, nor ruler, [that] asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. answered Then Daniel {answered} with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise [men] of Babylon: answered He {answered} and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why [is] the decree [so] hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. answered Daniel {answered} and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: answered The king {answered} and said to Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? answered Daniel {answered} in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise [men], the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, show unto the king; answered The king {answered} unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth [it is], that your God [is] a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. answered Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, {answered} and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we [are] not careful to answer thee in this matter. answered Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, [and] spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They {answered} and said unto the king, True, O king. answered He {answered} and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. answered Then Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar {answered} and said, My lord, the dream [be] to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. answered Then Daniel {answered} and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. answered Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask [a petition] of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king {answered} and said, The thing [is] true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. answered Then {answered} they and said before the king, That Daniel, which [is] of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. answered And one of the elders {answered}, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? ~~~~~~