Daniel 2:13 CPDV

¹¹  For the answer that you seek, O king, is very difficult. Neither can anyone be found who can reveal it in the sight of the king, except the gods, whose conversation is not with men.'

¹²  When he heard this, the king commanded, in fury and in great wrath, that all the wise men of Babylon should be destroyed.

¹³  And when the decree had gone forth, the wise men were put to death; and Daniel and his companions were sought, to be destroyed.

¹⁴  Then Daniel inquired, about the law and the sentence, of Arioch, the general of the king's army, who had gone forth to execute the wise men of Babylon.

¹⁵  And he asked him, who had received the orders of the king, for what reason such a cruel sentence had gone forth from the face of the king. And so, when Arioch had revealed the matter to Daniel,