Daniel 2:5
Good News Translation
The king said to them, "I have made up my mind that you must tell me the dream and then tell me what it means. If you can't, I'll have you torn limb from limb and make your houses a pile of ruins.

New Revised Standard Version
The king answered the Chaldeans, “This is a public decree: if you do not tell me both the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.

Contemporary English Version
But the king replied, "No! I have made up my mind. If you don't tell me both the dream and its meaning, you will be chopped to pieces and your houses will be torn down.

New American Bible
The king answered the Chaldeans, “This is what I have decided: unless you tell me the dream and its meaning, you shall be cut to pieces and your houses made into a refuse heap.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.

ye shall.

Daniel 3:29 For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things:

1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

Psalm 50:22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Psalm 58:7 They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

cut in pieces.

Deuteronomy 13:16 And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with the city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.

Joshua 6:26 Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.

2 Kings 10:27 And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.

Ezra 6:11 And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.

Context
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
4And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof. 5And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.6but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.…
Cross References
2 Kings 10:27
And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.

Ezra 6:11
And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.

Daniel 2:12
Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death.

Daniel 3:29
For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things:

Daniel 4:9
Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it.

Daniel 2:4
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