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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> And so Daniel was living with the king, and he was honored above all his friends.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> Now there was an idol with the Babylonians named Bel. And each day there was expended on him twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> The king likewise worshipped him and went each day to adore him, but Daniel adored his God. And the king said to him, "Why do you not adore Bel?"</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> And answering, he said to him, "Because I do not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, who created heaven and earth, and who holds power over all flesh."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> And the king said to him, "Does not Bel seem to you to be a living god? Do you not see how much he eats and drinks every day?"</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content"> Then Daniel said, smiling, "O king, do not make a mistake, for this one is clay on the inside and brass on the outside, and he has never eaten."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> And the king, being angry, called for his priests and said to them, "If you do not tell me who it is that has eaten these expenses, you will die.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> But if you can show that Bel has eaten these, Daniel will die, because he has blasphemed against Bel." And Daniel said to the king, "Let it be according to your word."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> Now the priests of Bel were seventy, besides their wives, and little ones, and sons. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> And the priests of Bel said, "Behold, we are going out, and you, O king, set out the meats, and mix the wine, and close the door, and seal it with your ring.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> And when you have entered in the morning, if you have not found that Bel has consumed all, we will suffer death, or else Daniel will, who has lied against us."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> But they had no concern because they had made a secret entrance under the table, and they always went in through it and devoured those things.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> And so it happened, after they had departed, that the king set the foods before Bel, and Daniel commanded his servants, and they brought ashes, and he sifted them throughout the temple in the sight of the king, and, as they left, they shut the door, and after sealing it with the king's ring, they departed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> But the priests entered by night, according to their custom, with their wives, and their sons, and they ate and drank everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content"> But the king arose at first light, and Daniel with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> And the king said, "Are the seals unbroken, Daniel?" And he answered, "They are unbroken, O king."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> And as soon as he had opened the door, the king stared at the table, and cried out with a loud voice, "Great are you, O Bel, and there is not any deceit with you."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> And Daniel laughed, and he held back the king, so that he would not enter, and he said, "Look at the pavement, notice whose footsteps these are."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> And the king said, "I see the footsteps of men, and women, and children." And the king was angry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> Then he apprehended the priests, and their wives, and their sons, and they showed him the secret doors through which they entered and consumed the things that were on the table.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content"> Therefore, the king slaughtered them and delivered Bel into the power of Daniel, who overturned him and his temple.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> And there was a great dragon in that place, and the Babylonians worshipped him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content"> And the king said to Daniel, "Behold, now you cannot say that this is not a living god; therefore, adore him."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content"> And Daniel said, "I adore the Lord, my God, for he is the living God. But that one is not a living god.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content"> Therefore, you give me the power, O king, and I will execute this dragon without sword or club." And the king said, "I give it to you."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.14.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> And so Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and cooked them together. And he made lumps and put them into the dragon's mouth, and the dragon burst open. And he said, "Behold, this is what you worship."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.14.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content"> When the Babylonians had heard this, they were greatly indignant. And gathering together against the king, they said, "The king has become a Jew. He has destroyed Bel, he has executed the dragon, and he has slaughtered the priests."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.14.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content"> And when they came to the king, they said, "Deliver Daniel to us, otherwise we will execute you and your house."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DAN.14.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content"> Thus the king saw that they pressured him vehemently, and so, being compelled by necessity, he delivered Daniel to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DAN.14.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content"> And they cast him into the den of lions, and he was there for six days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DAN.14.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content"> Furthermore, in the den there were seven lions, and they had given to them two carcasses every day, and two sheep, but then they were not given to them, so that they would devour Daniel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DAN.14.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content"> Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habakkuk, and he had cooked a small meal and had broken bread in a bowl, and he was going into the field, to bring it to the harvesters.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DAN.14.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content"> And the angel of the Lord said to Habakkuk, "Carry the meal that you have into Babylon, to Daniel, who is in the lions' den."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DAN.14.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content"> And Habakkuk said, "Lord, I have not seen Babylon, and I do not know the den."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DAN.14.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content"> And the angel of the Lord seized him by the top of his head, and carried him by the hair of his head, and set him in Babylon, over the den, by the force of his spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="DAN.14.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content"> And Habakkuk shouted, saying, "Daniel, servant of God, take the dinner that God has sent you."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="DAN.14.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content"> And Daniel said, "You have remembered me, O God, and you have not abandoned those who love you."</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DAN.14.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content"> And Daniel arose and ate. And then the angel of the Lord immediately returned Habakkuk to his place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="DAN.14.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content"> And so, on the seventh day, the king came to morn Daniel. And he came to the den, and gazed in, and behold, Daniel was sitting in the midst of the lions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="DAN.14.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content"> And the king cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Great are you, O Lord, the God of Daniel." And he pulled him out of the lions' den.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="DAN.14.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content"> Furthermore, those who had been the cause of his downfall, he hurled into the den, and they were devoured in a moment before him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="DAN.14.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content"> Then the king said, "Let all the inhabitants of the whole earth fear the God of Daniel. For he is the Savior, working signs and miracles on earth, who has freed Daniel from the lions' den."</span></span></div>
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And so Daniel was living with the king, and he was honored above all his friends.
Now there was an idol with the Babylonians named Bel. And each day there was expended on him twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.
The king likewise worshipped him and went each day to adore him, but Daniel adored his God. And the king said to him, "Why do you not adore Bel?"
And answering, he said to him, "Because I do not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, who created heaven and earth, and who holds power over all flesh."
And the king said to him, "Does not Bel seem to you to be a living god? Do you not see how much he eats and drinks every day?"
Then Daniel said, smiling, "O king, do not make a mistake, for this one is clay on the inside and brass on the outside, and he has never eaten."
And the king, being angry, called for his priests and said to them, "If you do not tell me who it is that has eaten these expenses, you will die.
But if you can show that Bel has eaten these, Daniel will die, because he has blasphemed against Bel." And Daniel said to the king, "Let it be according to your word."
Now the priests of Bel were seventy, besides their wives, and little ones, and sons. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.
And the priests of Bel said, "Behold, we are going out, and you, O king, set out the meats, and mix the wine, and close the door, and seal it with your ring.
And when you have entered in the morning, if you have not found that Bel has consumed all, we will suffer death, or else Daniel will, who has lied against us."
But they had no concern because they had made a secret entrance under the table, and they always went in through it and devoured those things.
And so it happened, after they had departed, that the king set the foods before Bel, and Daniel commanded his servants, and they brought ashes, and he sifted them throughout the temple in the sight of the king, and, as they left, they shut the door, and after sealing it with the king's ring, they departed.
But the priests entered by night, according to their custom, with their wives, and their sons, and they ate and drank everything.
But the king arose at first light, and Daniel with him.
And the king said, "Are the seals unbroken, Daniel?" And he answered, "They are unbroken, O king."
And as soon as he had opened the door, the king stared at the table, and cried out with a loud voice, "Great are you, O Bel, and there is not any deceit with you."
And Daniel laughed, and he held back the king, so that he would not enter, and he said, "Look at the pavement, notice whose footsteps these are."
And the king said, "I see the footsteps of men, and women, and children." And the king was angry.
Then he apprehended the priests, and their wives, and their sons, and they showed him the secret doors through which they entered and consumed the things that were on the table.
Therefore, the king slaughtered them and delivered Bel into the power of Daniel, who overturned him and his temple.
And there was a great dragon in that place, and the Babylonians worshipped him.
And the king said to Daniel, "Behold, now you cannot say that this is not a living god; therefore, adore him."
And Daniel said, "I adore the Lord, my God, for he is the living God. But that one is not a living god.
Therefore, you give me the power, O king, and I will execute this dragon without sword or club." And the king said, "I give it to you."
And so Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and cooked them together. And he made lumps and put them into the dragon's mouth, and the dragon burst open. And he said, "Behold, this is what you worship."
When the Babylonians had heard this, they were greatly indignant. And gathering together against the king, they said, "The king has become a Jew. He has destroyed Bel, he has executed the dragon, and he has slaughtered the priests."
And when they came to the king, they said, "Deliver Daniel to us, otherwise we will execute you and your house."
Thus the king saw that they pressured him vehemently, and so, being compelled by necessity, he delivered Daniel to them.
And they cast him into the den of lions, and he was there for six days.
Furthermore, in the den there were seven lions, and they had given to them two carcasses every day, and two sheep, but then they were not given to them, so that they would devour Daniel.
Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habakkuk, and he had cooked a small meal and had broken bread in a bowl, and he was going into the field, to bring it to the harvesters.
And the angel of the Lord said to Habakkuk, "Carry the meal that you have into Babylon, to Daniel, who is in the lions' den."
And Habakkuk said, "Lord, I have not seen Babylon, and I do not know the den."
And the angel of the Lord seized him by the top of his head, and carried him by the hair of his head, and set him in Babylon, over the den, by the force of his spirit.
And Habakkuk shouted, saying, "Daniel, servant of God, take the dinner that God has sent you."
And Daniel said, "You have remembered me, O God, and you have not abandoned those who love you."
And Daniel arose and ate. And then the angel of the Lord immediately returned Habakkuk to his place.
And so, on the seventh day, the king came to morn Daniel. And he came to the den, and gazed in, and behold, Daniel was sitting in the midst of the lions.
And the king cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Great are you, O Lord, the God of Daniel." And he pulled him out of the lions' den.
Furthermore, those who had been the cause of his downfall, he hurled into the den, and they were devoured in a moment before him.
Then the king said, "Let all the inhabitants of the whole earth fear the God of Daniel. For he is the Savior, working signs and miracles on earth, who has freed Daniel from the lions' den."

සවන් දෙන්න Daniel 14