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THE BOOK OF
DANIEL
CHAPTER 2
  5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is agone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be bcut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

Footnotes
5a
Persian: sure with me; i.e. he knew his dream and desired to test them. See v. 8-9.
  8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
b
Dan. 3: 29.
  29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be acut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can bdeliver after this sort.