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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369837" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible Stories: Daniel, Bel and the Dragon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When King Astyages died, <br>Cyrus of Persia became king; <br>Daniel was his honored companion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Babylonians’ idol was Bel; <br>Each day, they offered twelve bushels of flour, <br>Forty sheep and fifty gallons of wine; <br>The king too worshipped Bel; <br>But Daniel worshipped his own God! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the King asked Daniel, <br>‘Why don’t you worship Bel? ’<br>Daniel answered he didn’t revere<br>Any man-made idols, <br>But worshipped the One, living God, <br>Who’d created heaven and the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The king asked him, “Isn’t Bel’s a living God? <br>He eats and drinks each day”<br>But Daniel told him not to be deceived; <br>The idol was just inner clay, <br>And outer brass that never ate nor drank.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angered King ushered the priests, <br>And ordered them to prove <br>That Bel ate /drank each day; <br>If so, Daniel would die for blasphemy; <br>If not, all of them would be killed; <br>The priests agreed to prove the same; <br>There were seventy priests, their wives and children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The king entered the temple; <br>The priests asked him to place the food <br>And wine himself, and shut the door, <br>And seal it by his signet ring; <br>The priests didn’t care as below the statue, <br>They had a secret route through which they went<br>In and out, devouring the offerings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the food had been placed, <br>Then Daniel sifted ashes all <br>O’er the temple-floor; <br>With the help of servants, <br>in the king’s presence and left; <br>The door was sealed by the king’s ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night, the priests and others secretly <br>went in and ate everything; <br>Next day, the king with Daniel came<br> And opened the sealed temple door, <br>But found that the food had vanished! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The king shouted aloud to Bel, <br>“You’re great and undeceiving God.”<br>But Daniel laughed and showed the king <br>The footsteps on the temple’s floor; <br>The king agreed that it was that of <br>men, women and children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The enraged king then seized the priests <br>They showed the secret route; <br>They were all put to death; <br>The king gave Daniel the temple of Bel; <br>Daniel destroyed both Bel and the temple.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Babylonians revered a dragon; <br>The king asked Daniel, “Isn’t this a living God? ”<br>But Daniel said that he worshipped<br>Only his one, living God; <br>If permitted by the king, <br>He would slay the dragon <br>by sword or club.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, Daniel fed the dragon <br>Cakes containing pitch, fat and hair; <br>The dragon consumed it all <br>and burst open dead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angered Babylonians <br>Spread word that the king had turned a Jew; <br>They demanded that Daniel <br>Be put into a lion’s den; <br>Compelled, the king did as they urged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Daniel was inside the den <br>For six days with seven lions; <br>The lions were not fed anything; <br>They were denied the daily food <br>Of two human bodies and two sheep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The prophet Habakkuk was in Judea; <br>While taking food to the reapers, <br>God sent an angel to him<br>And ordered him take dinner to Daniel; <br>Habakkuk told he had never seen Babylon, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The angel took him by his crown of head <br>And put him aloft the lion’s den with the food; <br>The prophet shouted to Daniel <br>To come and eat the food given by God; <br>Daniel thanked the Lord for his remembrance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On seventh day, the king went to the den, <br>He thought that Daniel would be dead; <br>To his utter surprise, he was alive; <br>He took him out and praised <br>The one living God of Daniel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He threw into the lion’s den; <br>All those who plotted against Daniel; <br>Immediately, they were all killed <br>And devoured by the hungry lions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(4-11-2007)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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Cyrus of Persia became king; 
Daniel was his honored companion.

The Babylonians’ idol was Bel; 
Each day, they offered twelve bushels of flour, 
Forty sheep and fifty gallons of wine; 
The king too worshipped Bel; 
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