mkjv Daniel:6:4-17
mkjv@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and rulers sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they could find no occasion or fault, because he [was] faithful. Neither [was] there any error or fault found in him.
mkjv@Daniel:6:5 @ Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
mkjv@Daniel:6:6 @ Then these presidents and rulers assembled to the king, and said this to him: King Darius, live forever.
mkjv@Daniel:6:7 @ All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, and the officials and governors, have planned together to establish a royal law, and to make a strong ban that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions.
mkjv@Daniel:6:8 @ Now, O king, establish the ban and sign the writing, so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be changed.
mkjv@Daniel:6:9 @ Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the ban.
mkjv@Daniel:6:10 @ And when he had learned that the document was signed, Daniel went to his house. And his windows were open in his roof room toward Jerusalem; and he kneeled on his knees three times a day and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
mkjv@Daniel:6:11 @ Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and confessing before his God.
mkjv@Daniel:6:12 @ Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king's ban. Have you not signed a ban that every man who shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the lion's den? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.
mkjv@Daniel:6:13 @ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who [is] of the exiled sons of Judah, has not respected you, O king, nor the ban that you have signed, but makes his prayer three times a day.
mkjv@Daniel:6:14 @ Then the king, when he heard the word, was very much displeased with himself. And he set [his] heart on Daniel to deliver him. And he labored until sundown to deliver him.
mkjv@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men met before the king and said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians [is] that no ban nor law which the king establishes may be changed.
mkjv@Daniel:6:16 @ Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king answered and said to Daniel, Your God, whom you always serve, will deliver you.
mkjv@Daniel:6:17 @ And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den. And the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
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