Bel and the Dragon 2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

² Daniel was a companion of the king, and was the most honoured of all his friends.

³ Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel, and every day they provided for it twelve bushels of choice flour and forty sheep and six measures^[a] of wine. ⁴ The king revered it and went every day to worship it. But Daniel worshipped his own God.

So the king said to him, ‘Why do you not worship Bel?’