youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace; and that he should teach them the learning 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 was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him. And his sleep fled from him.