1. Now king Darius made a great feast to all his subjects, and to all that were born in his house, and to all the princes of Media and of Persia,
2. and to all the satraps and captains and governors that were under him, from India to Ethiopia, in the hundred twenty and seven provinces.
3. And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept, and awaked out of his sleep.
4. Then the three young men of the body-guard, that kept the king’s person, spoke one to another: