5:1
Dani’el stood before Nevukhadnetzar and spoke without flattering the throne.
5:2
He warned that royal greatness was given and could be withdrawn when pride treated human beings and nations as possessions. 4
5:3
The king elevated Dani’el because his wisdom surpassed the magicians, but court promotion did not make the imperial claim righteous.
5:4
Dani’el guarded the House memory while serving inside a foreign administration, and the text makes this double position the ground of his later visions.