1. During the second year that Nebuchadnezzar was king, he had such horrible nightmares that he could not sleep.
10. His advisers explained, “Your Majesty, you are demanding the impossible! No king, not even the most famous and powerful, has ever ordered his advisers, magicians, or wise men to do such a thing.
11. It can't be done, except by the gods, and they don't live here on earth.”
12-13. This made the king so angry that he gave orders for every wise man in Babylonia to be put to death, including Daniel and his three friends.