<t /><p class="bodytext">But Daniel replied to the king, &#8220;Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else! However, I will read the writing for the king and make known its<n id="1" /> interpretation.

<p class="poetry">The ten hornsp> <p class="poetry">mean that ten kings will arise from that kingdom.p> <p class="poetry">Another king will arise after them,p> <p class="poetry">but he will be different from the earlier ones.p> <p class="poetry">He will humiliate<n id="1" /> three kings.p>

What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods &#8211; but they don&#8217;t live among mortals!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

I hereby decree<n id="1" /> that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes<n id="2" /> the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.&#8221;