Daniel 2:16 CPDV

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,

¹⁶  Daniel went in and asked of the king that he would grant him time to reveal the solution to the king.

¹⁷  And he went into his house and explained the task to Hananiah, and Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,

¹⁸  so that they would seek mercy before the face of the God of heaven, about this mystery, and so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the other wise men of Babylon.