10. The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can tell the king what he asks. No other king, no matter how great and powerful, has ever asked such a thing of any magician, psychic, or astrologer.
11. What you ask is difficult, Your Majesty. No one can tell what you dreamed except the gods, and they don’t live with humans.”
12. This made the king so angry and furious that he gave an order to destroy all the wise advisers in Babylon.
13. So a decree was issued that the wise advisers were to be killed, and some men were sent to find Daniel and his friends and kill them.
14. While Arioch, the captain of the royal guard, was leaving to kill the wise advisers in Babylon, Daniel spoke to him using shrewd judgment.
15. He asked Arioch, the royal official, “Why is the king’s decree so harsh?” So Arioch explained everything to Daniel.
16. Daniel went and asked the king to give him some time so that he could explain the dream’s meaning.