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.

Thou being king hast given a commandment, that all men when they hear noise of the trumpets, harps, shawmes psalteries, symphonies and all the other melodies: shall fall down and bow themselves toward the golden Image.

And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego fell down in the hot burning oven, being fast bound.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, being at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace,

and Darius out of Media took in the kingdom, being sixty two years of age.

I saw him draw nigh unto the ram, being very fierce upon him: yea he gave him such a stroke, that he brake his two horns. Neither had the ram so much strength as to stand before him: but he cast him down, trod him under his feet: and no man was able to deliver the ram out of his power.