Daniel 6:6-7

6Then these presidents and princes assembled to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live for ever.1 7All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.2