7. Once more they replied, ‘Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will interpret it.’
8. Then the king answered, ‘I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realise that this is what I have firmly decided:
9. if you do not tell me the dream, there is only one penalty for you. You have conspired to tell me misleading and wicked things, hoping the situation will change. So then, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can interpret it for me.’
10. The astrologers answered the king, ‘There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.
11. What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans.’
12. This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon.
13. So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.