25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: “I have found ^xamong the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

13 Then they answered and said before the king, “Daniel, ^zwho is one of the exiles from Judah, ^apays no attention to you, O king, or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”