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Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch ,
whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon :
he went and said thus unto him ;
Destroy not the wise men of Babylon :
bring me in before the king ,
and I will shew unto the king the interpretation .
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Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste ,
and said thus unto him ,
I have found a man of the captives of Judah ,
that will make known unto the king the interpretation .
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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 ?
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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 ,
shew unto the king ;
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But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets ,
and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days .
Thy dream ,
and the visions of thy head upon thy bed ,
are these ;
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As for thee ,
O king ,
thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed ,
what should come to pass hereafter :
and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass .
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But as for me ,
this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living ,
but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king ,
and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart .
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Thou ,
O king ,
sawest ,
and behold a great image .
This great image ,
whose brightness was excellent ,
stood before thee ;
and the form thereof was terrible .
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This image '
s head was of fine gold ,
his breast and his arms of silver ,
his belly and his thighs of brass ,
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His legs of iron ,
his feet part of iron and part of clay .
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Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands ,
which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay ,
and brake them to pieces .
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Then was the iron ,
the clay ,
the brass ,
the silver ,
and the gold ,
broken to pieces together ,
and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors ;
and the wind carried them away ,
that no place was found for them :
and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain ,
and filled the whole earth .
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This is the dream ;
and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king .
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Thou ,
O king ,
art a king of kings :
for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom ,
power ,
and strength ,
and glory .
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And wheresoever the children of men dwell ,
the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand ,
and hath made thee ruler over them all .
Thou art this head of gold .
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And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee ,
and another third kingdom of brass ,
which shall bear rule over all the earth .
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And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron :
forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things :
and as iron that breaketh all these ,
shall it break in pieces and bruise .
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And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes ,
part of potters '
clay ,
and part of iron ,
the kingdom shall be divided ;
but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron ,
forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay .
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And as the toes of the feet were part of iron ,
and part of clay ,
so the kingdom shall be partly strong ,
and partly broken .
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And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay ,
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men :
but they shall not cleave one to another ,
even as iron is not mixed with clay .
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And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom ,
which shall never be destroyed :
and the kingdom shall not be left to other people ,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms ,
and it shall stand for ever .
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Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands ,
and that it brake in pieces the iron ,
the brass ,
the clay ,
the silver ,
and the gold ;
the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter :
and the dream is certain ,
and the interpretation thereof sure .
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Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face ,
and worshipped Daniel ,
and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him .
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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 .
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Then the king made Daniel a great man ,
and gave him many great gifts ,
and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon ,
and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon .
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Then Daniel requested of the king ,
and he set Shadrach ,
Meshach ,
and Abednego ,
over the affairs of the province of Babylon :
but Daniel sat in the gate of the king .