Daniel 6:11-17

11Then these men came 12by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. 12Then they approached and 3spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the 4law of the Medes and Persians, which 5may not be revoked.” 13Then they answered and spoke before the king, “6Daniel, who is one of the 7exiles from Judah, pays 8no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day.”

14Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply 9distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him. 15Then these men came 10by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a 11law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

16Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and 12cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “1314Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.” 17A 15stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed in regard to Daniel.