Daniel 6:7-9

The Message

^6-7 The vice-regents and governors conspired together and then went to the king and said, “King Darius, live forever! We’ve convened your vice-regents, governors, and all your leading officials, and have agreed that the king should issue the following decree:

For the next thirty days no one is to pray to any god or mortal except you, O king. Anyone who disobeys will be thrown into the lions’ den.

⁸ “Issue this decree, O king, and make it unconditional, as if written in stone like all the laws of the Medes and the Persians.”

⁹ King Darius signed the decree.