Daniel 6:4-15

4ThenH116 the presidents and the satrapsH324 sought to find occasion against DanielH1841 as touching the kingdomH4437; but they could find no occasion nor fault, forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. 5ThenH116 said these men, We shall not findH7912 any occasion against this DanielH1841, except we findH7912 it against him concerningH5922 the law of his God. 6ThenH116 these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and saidH560 thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 7All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satrapsH324, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O kingH4430, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 8Now, O kingH4430, establishH6966 the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, accordingH4481 to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 9Wherefore kingH4430 Darius signedH7560 the writing and the interdict.

10And when Daniel knew that the writing was signedH7560, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem); and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. 11Then these men assembled together, and found DanielH1841 makingH3046 petition and supplication before his GodH426. 12ThenH116 they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s interdict: Hast thou not signed an interdict, that every manH1400 that shall make petition unto any godH426 or manH1400 within thirty days, save unto thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 13ThenH116 answered they and saidH560 before the kingH4430, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O kingH4430, nor the interdict that thou hast signedH7560, but maketh his petition three times a dayH3118. 14ThenH116 the kingH4430, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and setH7761 his heart on DanielH1841 to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to rescue him. 15ThenH116 these men assembled together unto the kingH4430, and said unto the kingH4430, Know, O kingH4430, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the kingH4430 establisheth may be changed.