Daniel 6
6:1And it was pleasing before Darius, and he placed over the kingdom a hundred twenty satraps, for them to be in his entire kingdom.
6:2And above them three tacticians, which Daniel was one of them, for the satraps to render a reckoning to them, so that the king should not be troubled.
6:3And Daniel was over them, for extra spirit was in him, and the king placed him over his entire kingdom.
6:4And the tacticians and the satraps sought an excuse to find something against Daniel; and any excuse, or transgression, or error they did not find against him, for he was trustworthy.
6:5And the tacticians said, We did not find against Daniel an excuse unless it be in the laws of his God.
6:6Then the tacticians, and the satraps stood beside the king. And they said to him, O king Darius, live into the eons!
6:7All the ones over your kingdom took counsel -- the commandants, and satraps, the supreme leaders, and toparchs, to establish a royal position, and to strengthen an enactment, so that whoever should ask a request from any god or man, for thirty days, except from you, O king, shall be put into the pit of the lions.
6:8Now then, O king, establish the enactment, and display in writing how the decree of the Persians and Medes should not be changed!
6:9Then king Darius gave orders to write the decree.
6:10And when Daniel knew that the decree was arranged, he went into his house, and the windows were open to him in his upper rooms before Jerusalem. And three times of the day he was bending upon his knees, and praying, and making acknowledgment before his God, as he was doing before.
6:11Then those men closely watched, and they found Daniel petitioning and beseeching his God.
6:12And coming forward, they say to the king, O king, did you not order an enactment so that every man who ever should ask from any God or man a request unto thirty days, except from you, O king, shall be put into the pit of lions? And the king said, The word is true, and the decree of the Medes and Persians shall not pass.
6:13Then they responded, and they spoke before the king, saying, Daniel, the one from the sons of the captivity of Judea was not submitted to your decree; and three times of the day he asks of his God the requests of his.
6:14Then the king, as he heard the saying, fretted much over him; and concerning Daniel he struggled to rescue him, and until evening he was struggling to rescue him.
6:15Then those men say to the king, Know, O king! that the decree of the Medes and Persians, every enactment and position which the king shall establish must not be altered.
6:16Then the king spoke, and they led Daniel, and they put him into the pit of the lions. But the king said to Daniel, Your God in whom you serve continually, he will rescue you.
6:17And they brought one stone, and they placed it upon the mouth of the pit, and the king set seal on it with his ring, and with the ring of his great men; so that the thing should not be changed with regard to Daniel.
6:18And the king went forth unto his house, and he went to bed supperless; and food was not carried in to him, and sleep left from him.
6:19Then the king rose up in the morning at the light. And in haste he came unto the pit of the lions.
6:20And at his approaching to the pit he yelled to Daniel a strong voice, Daniel, O servant of the living God, your God in whom you serve continually, was he able to rescue you from out of the mouth of the lions?
6:21And Daniel said to the king, O king, live into the eons!
6:22My God sent his angel, and he obstructed the mouths of the lions, and they did not lay me waste; for before him uprightness was found in me; and even before you, O king, I did not commit a transgression.
6:23Then the king felt much good over him, and spoke for Daniel to be brought from out of the pit. And they bore Daniel from out of the pit, and all hurt was not found on him, for he trusted in his God.
6:24And the king spoke, and they led the men, the ones accusing Daniel, and they put them into the pit of the lions, and their sons, and their wives. And they did not come unto the floor of the pit before the lions dominated them, and made fine all of their bones.
6:25Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, tribes, and languages, to the ones living in all the earth, saying, Peace be multiplied unto you.
6:26From my presence I made a decree for the one in every rule of my kingdom to be trembling and fearing from the face of the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, and the one abiding into the eons, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his dominion is unto the end.
6:27He takes hold of and he rescues, and he produces signs and miracles in the heaven and upon the earth, who rescued Daniel from the mouth of the lions.
6:28And Daniel prospered during the kingdom of Darius, and during the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.