The report they sent to him was written as follows: “To King Darius: All greetings!

We also inquired of their names in order to inform you, so that we might write the names of the men who were their leaders.

A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows: “Memorandum:

At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.

Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter concerning Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: “Peace and prosperity!

In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream filled with visions while he was lying on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream in summary fashion.