¹⁰ The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests.^(A) Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any diviner-priest, medium, or Chaldean. ¹¹ What the king is asking is so difficult that no one can make it known to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”^{(B) 12} Because of this, the king became violently angry^(C) and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.