EJ2000(i)
6 ¶ Then these governors and presidents assembled together before the king and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
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.