Daniel 2:6-10
Daniel 2:6
But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.”
Daniel 2:7
They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”
Daniel 2:8
The king replied, “I know for certain that you are trying to buy time, because you have perceived that the command from me is firm,
Daniel 2:9
that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, so that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation.”
Daniel 2:10
The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is no person on earth who could declare the matter to the king, because no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any soothsayer priest, sorcerer, or Chaldean.