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The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
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Verse 5. Put. Chal. “torn to pieces, and your house become infamous places;” ( Calmet.) Prot. “a dunghill” Bible.—Such cruel punishments were not uncommon. 1 Ezra 6:11. Calmet.—Bessus was torn in pieces by the relations of Darius; (Diod. xvii.) and the Persians generally cut off some member of criminals. Brisson ii.
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