Daniel 6:5-12 the ministers said, We shall not find any pretext against Daniel except in the ceremonies relating to his God.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ the ministers said, We shall not find any pretext against Daniel except in the ceremonies relating to his God. ⁶ Then the ministers and the governors waited on the king, and said to him, King Darius live forever! ⁷ All that are over thy kingdom, the generals and governors, the chief commanders and toparchs have joined in opinion to establish by a royal statute and make a firm decree, that whoever shall make any request of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee only, king; he shall be cast into the den of the lions. ⁸ Now therefore, king, establish the edict and promulgate it in writing, that the decree of the Persians and Medes may not be dispensed with. ⁹ Upon this Darius the king ordered the decree to be written. ¹⁰ Now when Daniel knew that the decree was passed, he went home and the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem were opened for him, and three times a day, kneeling down on his knees, he prayed and gave thanks before his God as he had done heretofore. ¹¹ Now those men watched and having found Daniel praising and supplicating his God, ¹² they went and said to the king, king, hast thou not passed an edict, that every man who shall make any request of any god or man for the space of thirty days save of thee only, king, shall be cast into the den of the lions? And the king said, It is true; and the decree of the Medes and Persians cannot be altered.