Daniel 2:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² At this, the king exploded in a furious rage and ordered that all Babylon’s sages be wiped out. ¹³ So the command went out: The sages were to be killed. Daniel and his friends too were hunted down; they were to be killed as well.

God reveals the mystery

¹⁴ Then Daniel, with wisdom and sound judgment, responded to Arioch the king’s chief executioner, who had gone out to kill Babylon’s sages.