jub - Daniel:6:4-17

jub@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and governors looked for occasions against Daniel on behalf of the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault because he was faithful, and no vice nor fault was found in him.

jub@Daniel:6:5 @ Then these men said, We shall never find any occasion against this Daniel except we find [it] against him in the law of his God.

jub@Daniel:6:6 @ Then these governors and presidents assembled together before the king and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

jub@Daniel:6:7 @ All the presidents of the kingdom, magistrates, governors, great [ones], and captains have agreed in common accord to promote a royal decree and to confirm it 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.

jub@Daniel:6:8 @ Now, O king, confirm the decree and sign the writing that it not be moved, according to the law of Media and of Persia, which does not change.

jub@Daniel:6:9 @ Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

jub@Daniel:6:10 @ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he entered into his house; and with the windows open toward Jerusalem in his dining chamber, he knelt three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he was used to doing before.

jub@Daniel:6:11 @ Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

jub@Daniel:6:12 @ Then they went and spoke before the king concerning the royal decree; Hast thou not confirmed a decree that whoever 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 Media and Persia, which does not change.

jub@Daniel:6:13 @ Then they answered and said before the king, That Daniel, which [is] of the sons of the captivity of the Jews, has not regarded thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast confirmed, but makes his petition three times a day.

jub@Daniel:6:14 @ When the king, heard the matter, it weighed very heavy upon him, and [he] set [his] heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured until the going down of the sun to deliver him.

jub@Daniel:6:15 @ Then those men assembled near the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that this is the law of Media and of Persia: No decree nor statute which the king has confirmed may be moved.

jub@Daniel:6:16 @ Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast [him] into the den of lions. [Now] the king, speaking unto Daniel, said, Thy God whom thou servest continually, [may] he deliver thee.

jub@Daniel:6:17 @ And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet [ring] and with the signet [ring] of his princes that the agreement concerning Daniel might not be changed.