Daniel 2:14-23 - God Shows Daniel What The Dream Means
14 Then Daniel enquired Arioch the king's steward, of the judgment and sentence that was gone forth already to kill such as were wise at Babylon. 15 He answered, and said to Arioch, being then the king's deputy, "Why hath the king proclaimed so cruel a sentence?" So Arioch told Daniel the matter. 16 Upon this, went Daniel up, and desired the king, that he might have leisure to show the king the interpretation:
17 and then came he home again and showed the thing unto Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: 18 that they should beseech the God of heaven for grace in this secret, that Daniel and his fellows with others such as were wise in Babylon, perished not. 19 Then was the mystery showed unto Daniel in a vision by night. And Daniel praised the God of heaven. 20 Daniel also cried aloud, and said, "O that the name of God might be praised for ever and ever, for wisdom and strength are his own! 21 He changeth the times and ages; he putteth down kings, he setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and understanding to those that understand; 22 he openeth the deep secrets; he knoweth the thing that lieth in darkness, for the light dwelleth with him. 23 I thank thee, and pray thee, O thou God of my fathers, that thou hast lent me wisdom and strength, and hast showed me the thing that we desired of thee, for thou hast opened the king's matter unto me."