The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you will not make known unto me the dream, with its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Put. Chaldean, "torn to pieces, and your house become infamous places "(Calmet) Protestant, "a dunghill "(Haydock) Such cruel punishments were not uncommon. (1 Esdras vi. 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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