921 verses contain “Bel” (in the KJV: 620, in the BSB: 713) — showing 901–921
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Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.
So Bel’s priests said, Lo, we go out: but thou, O king, set on the meat, and make ready the wine, and shut the door fast and seal it with thine own signet;
And to morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.
Therefore the king slew them, and delivered Bel into Daniel’s power, who destroyed him and his temple.
When they of Babylon heard that, they took great indignation, and conspired against the king, saying, The king is become a Jew, and he hath destroyed Bel, he hath slain the dragon, and put the priests to death.
Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, by believing were saved out of the flame.
And I thought with myself, Into what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was bountiful and beloved in my power.
So part of the king’s army being spread upon the high mountains, and part on the valleys below, they marched on safely and in order.
Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them threescore men, and slew them in one day, according to the words which he wrote,
I will further, that there be enrolled among the king’s forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, unto whom pay shall be given, as belongeth to all king’s forces.
And as for other things that belong unto us, of the tithes and customs pertaining unto us, as also the saltpits, and the crown taxes, which are due unto us, we discharge them of them all for their relief.
To stand upon every point, and go over things at large, and to be curious in particulars, belongeth to the first author of the story:
Insomuch that Seleucus of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the service of the sacrifices.
And that some of it belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:
Thus he armed every one of them, not so much with defence of shields and spears, as with comfortable and good words: and beside that, he told them a dream worthy to be believed, as if it had been so indeed, which did not a little rejoice them.