Bel and the Dragon 3-5

Common English Bible

³ Now the Babylonians had an idol named Bel. Each day they supplied it with twelve bushels of fine flour, forty sheep, and sixty gallons^[a] of wine. ⁴ The king honored Bel and worshipped it daily, but Daniel worshipped his own God. So the king said to him, “Why don’t you worship Bel?”

⁵ He said, “I don’t honor idols made by humans, rather the living God who created heaven and earth and has authority over all living things.”