Daniel 6:6-9
Read Daniel 6 in full →6Then these commissioners and satraps came 1by agreement to the king and said thus to him: “King Darius, alive forever! 7“All the acommissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have bcounseled together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who seeks to make a petition 1to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall cbe cast into the lions’ 2den. 8“Now, O king, aestablish the injunction and 1sign the written document so that it may not be changed, according to the blaw of the Medes and Persians, which 2may not be revoked.” 9Therefore King Darius asigned the written document, that is, the injunction.