noyes - Daniel:6:4-17

noyes@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel in relation to the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault; because he was faithful, and no error nor fault was found in him.

noyes@Daniel:6:5 @ Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

noyes@Daniel:6:6 @ Then these presidents and satraps rushed together to the king, and spake thus to him: King Darius, live forever!

noyes@Daniel:6:7 @ All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors and the satraps, the counsellors and the prefects, 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, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

noyes@Daniel: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.

noyes@Daniel:6:9 @ Wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree.

noyes@Daniel:6:10 @ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he kneeled upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done before.

noyes@Daniel:6:11 @ Then these men rushed together, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

noyes@Daniel:6:12 @ Then they came near and spake before the king concerning the royal decree: Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man who 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.

noyes@Daniel:6:13 @ Then answered they and said before the king, Daniel, who is of the sons of the captives of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree which thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

noyes@Daniel:6:14 @ Then the king, when he heard these words, was much troubled, and set his heart to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

noyes@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men assembled before the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree or statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

noyes@Daniel:6:16 @ Then the king commanded that they should bring Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. And the king spake and said to Daniel, May thy God, whom thou servest continually, deliver thee!

noyes@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, and with the signet of his lords, that nothing concerning Daniel might be changed.