Daniel 6:9-15

9Therefore King Darius 1signed the document, that is, the injunction.

10Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open 2toward Jerusalem); and he continued 3kneeling on his knees three times a day, 4praying and 5giving thanks before his God, 6as he had been doing previously. 11Then these men came 78by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. 12Then they approached and 9spoke 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 10law of the Medes and Persians, which 11may not be revoked.” 13Then they answered and spoke before the king, “12Daniel, who is one of the 13exiles from Judah, pays 14no 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 15distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him. 15Then these men came 16by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a 17law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”