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Daniel and the Dragon
Daniel refused to worship Babylon’s dragon and showed that it was not a true god.
Catholic additional books. This account comes from the deuterocanonical books, included in Catholic and some other Christian Bibles.
In Babylon, the people worshipped a great dragon. The king spoke to Daniel about it. He pointed out that this creature was not a metal statue. It was alive, and it ate and drank. So the king told Daniel to worship the dragon too.
Daniel would not do that. He answered that he worshipped the Lord his God, because the Lord is the living God. Even with the king urging him, Daniel did not treat the dragon as a god.
Then Daniel asked the king to let him kill the dragon without using a sword or a staff. The king agreed. Daniel took pitch, fat, and hair, melted them together, and made lumps from them.
Daniel put the lumps into the dragon’s mouth. The dragon ate them and burst apart. Then Daniel told them to look at the kind of gods they worshipped.
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A children’s retelling of Daniel (Greek) 14:23–27. You can read the Bible passage together too.
This episode comes from the Greek form of Daniel, in the Catholic additional collection, and is presented here as its own short account.
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