10. The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any diviner-priest, medium, or Chaldean.
11. What the king is asking is so difficult that no one can make it known to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”
12. Because of this, the king became violently angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
13. The decree was issued that the wise men were to be executed, and they searched for Daniel and his friends, to execute them.
14. Then Daniel responded with tact and discretion to Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.
15. He asked Arioch, the king’s officer, “Why is the decree from the king so harsh? ” Then Arioch explained the situation to Daniel.