Page 107 - The Prophet-statesman a Drama of Daniel

It was impossible that the funeral of such a mighty personage could be held
without pomp and ostentation, and his interment in the mausoleum was attended by
multitudes of the greatest and the humblest in all the land but without the slightest

recognition of Bel, the Babylonian god.

The king had requested before his death that the Prime Minister and the others
who had faith in the one Great and True God, should be in charge of all the

ceremonies, and that they should reiterate the fact of the king’s faith in Jahveh and the
hope and assurance that he had of passing into His presence, because of His great
mercies.