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3:91. Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was astonished, and rose up in
haste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the
midst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king.
3:92. He answered, and said: Behold, I see four men loose, and walking
in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of
the fourth is like the son of God.
3:93. Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery furnace,
and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high
God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach, and
Abdenago, went out from the midst of the fire.
3:94. And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the great
men of the king, being gathered together, considered these men, that the
fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of their head had
been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell of the fire had
passed on them.
3:95. Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth, said: Blessed be the God of
them, to wit, of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent his angel,
and delivered his servants that believed in him: and they changed the
king's word, and delivered up their bodies, that they might not serve
nor adore any god except their own God.
3:96. By me, therefore, this decree is made: That every people, tribe,
and tongue, which shall speak blasphemy against the God of Sidrach,
Misach, and Abdenago, shall be destroyed, and their houses laid waste:
for there is no other God that can save in this manner.
3:97. Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the
province of Babylon.
3:98. Nabuchodonosor, the king, to all peoples, nations, and tongues,
that dwell in all the earth, peace be multiplied unto you.
Nabuchodonosor, etc... These last three verses are a kind of preface to
the following chapter, which is written in the style of an epistle from
the king.
3:99. The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders towards me. It
hath seemed good to me, therefore, to publish
3:100. His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, because they
are mighty: and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to
all generations.
Daniel Chapter 4
Nabuchodonosor's dream, by which the judgments of God are denounced
against him for his pride, is interpreted by Daniel, and verified by the
event.
4:1. I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my
palace:
4:2. I saw a dream that affrighted me: and my thoughts in my bed, and
the visions of my head, troubled me.
4:3. Then I set forth a decree, that all the wise men of Babylon should
be brought in before me, and that they should shew me the interpretation
of the dream.
4:4. Then came in the diviners, the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the
soothsayers, and I told the dream before them: but they did not shew me
the interpretation thereof.
4:5. Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is
Baltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit
of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him.
Baltassar, according to the name of my god... He says this, because the
name of Baltassar, or Belteshazzar, is derived from the name of Bel, the
chief god of the Babylonians.
4:6. Baltassar, prince of the diviners, because I know that thou hast in
thee the spirit of the holy gods, and that no secret is impossible to
thee, tell me the visions of my dreams that I have seen, and the
interpretation of them?
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