sons in whom was no blemish, but who were handsome and skillful in all wisdom; and who had knowledge and understanding, even those who were able to stand in the king's palace, and to whom they might teach the writing and the language of the Chaldeans.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house and flourishing in my palace.

At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

At that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. And diversions were not brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

And in a vision I looked. And it happened when I looked, I was at Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam. And in a vision I looked, and I was by the Ulai Canal.

And he shall plant his palace tents between the seas in the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.