"There is a man in your kingdom in whom [is] the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father -- your father the king -- made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers.

Thus Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus.

Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts; and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief administrator over all the wise [men] of Babylon.

In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared [to] me -- to me, Daniel -- after the one that appeared to me the first time.

And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king's business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it.

Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king, and said thus to him, "I have found a man of the captives of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation."

So they answered and said before the king, "That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day."

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of the LORD God of Israel,

Then the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the descendants of the captivity, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

And the descendants of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them [were ritually] clean. And they slaughtered the Passover [lambs] for all the descendants of the captivity, for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

And they issued a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the descendants of the captivity, that they must gather at Jerusalem,

Then the descendants of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of the fathers' [households,] were set apart by the fathers' [households,] each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which [had been] in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

"There is a man in your kingdom in whom [is] the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father -- your father the king -- made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers.

"O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.

His brothers therefore said to Him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing.