¹ It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty princes, who should be over the whole kingdom;

²⁹ Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other god that can deliver after this sort.