The king replied<n id="1" /> to the wise men, &#8220;My decision is firm.<n id="2" /> If you do not inform me of both the dream and its interpretation, you will be dismembered<n id="3" /> and your homes reduced to rubble!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled<n id="1" /> on it, and his house is to be reduced<n id="2" /> to a rubbish heap<n id="3" /> for this indiscretion.<n id="4" />

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;