¹² There are certain Jews whom you have ^(A)appointed over the affairs of ^(B)the province of Babylon: ^(C)Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, ^(D)pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, ^(A)“Daniel, who is one ^(B)of the exiles ^(C)from Judah, ^(D)pays no attention to you, O king, or ^(E)the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition ^(F)three times a day.”

⁴⁹ Daniel made a request of the king, and he ^(A)appointed ^(B)Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of ^(C)the province of Babylon. But Daniel ^(D)remained at the king's court.

⁷ and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against ^(A)the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is ^(B)another king, Jesus.”

²⁸ saying, ^(A)“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you ^(B)intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”

⁴ Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is ^(A)vanity^[a] and a striving after wind.

⁸ Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. ^(A)Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.

⁷ And the women ^(A)sang to one another as they celebrated,

⁸ And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but ^(C)the kingdom?” ⁹ And Saul eyed David from that day on.

¹⁰ The next day ^(D)a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and ^(E)he raved within his house while David was ^(F)playing the lyre, as he did day by day. ^(G)Saul had his spear in his hand. ¹¹ And Saul ^(H)hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.