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6:1 A plot to stop Daniyel praying
6 It pleased Dareyavesh to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; 2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniyel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss. 3 Then this Daniyel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
4 Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniyel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him. 5 Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniyel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his god.”
6 Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Dareyavesh, live forever! 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that anyone who asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, Oh king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions. 8 Now, Oh king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Madim (Medes) and Persians, which doesn’t alter.” 9 Therefore King Dareyavesh signed the writing and the decree.
10 When Daniyel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room towards Yerushalem (Jerusalem)) and he knelt on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his god, as he did before. 11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniyel making petition and supplication before his god. 12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, Oh king, shall be thrown into the den of lions?”
The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Madim and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
13 Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniyel, who is of the children of the captivity of Yehudah (Judah), doesn’t respect you, Oh king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.” 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniyel to deliver him; and he laboured until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, Oh king, that it is a law of the Madim and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”