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DA-6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and
twenty
princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
DA-6:2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel [was]
first: that the
princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have
no damage.
DA-6:3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and
princes,
because an excellent spirit [was] in him; and the king thought
to set him over
the whole realm.
DA-6:4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion
against Daniel
concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor
fault; forasmuch
as he [was] faithful, neither was there any error or fault found
in him.
DA-6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion
against this
Daniel, except we find [it] against him concerning the law of
his God.
DA-6:6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to
the king, and
said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
DA-6:7 All 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 whosoever shall ask a
petition of any
God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be
cast into the
den of lions.
DA-6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing,
that it be
not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
which altereth
not.
DA-6:9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
DA-6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he
went into his
house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward
Jerusalem, he kneeled
upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks
before his God,
as he did aforetime.
DA-6:11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and
making
supplication before his God.
DA-6:12 Then they came near, and spake before the king
concerning the king's
decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall
ask [a
petition] of any God or man within thirty days, save of 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.
DA-6:13 Then answered they and said before the king, That
Daniel, which [is]
of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O
king, nor the
decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three
times a day.
DA-6:14 Then the king, when he heard [these] words, was sore
displeased with
himself, and set [his] heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he
laboured till
the going down of the sun to deliver him.
DA-6:15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto
the king, Know,
O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians [is], That no
decree nor
statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
DA-6:16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and
cast [him] into
the den of lions. [Now] the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy
God whom thou
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