And it was pleasing before Darius, and he placed over the kingdom satraps in entire
And above them tacticians which Daniel was one of them, for the to render so that the king should not be troubled.
And Daniel was over them, for spirit was in him, and the king placed him over entire
And 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.
And said We did not find against Daniel an excuse unless it be in of his God.
Then the tacticians, and the satraps stood beside the king. And they said to him, O king Darius, into
took counsel and satraps, and toparchs, to establish position and to strengthen an enactment, so that whoever should ask a request from any god or man, for days except from you, O king, shall be put into the pit of the lions.
Now then, O king, establish the enactment, and display in writing how should not
Then king Darius gave orders to write the decree.
And when Daniel knew that was arranged he went into his house, and the windows were open to him in his upper rooms before Jerusalem. And times of the day he was bending upon his knees, and praying, and making acknowledgment before his God, as he was doing before.
Then those men closely watched, and they found Daniel petitioning and beseeching his God.
And coming forward, they say to the king, O king, did you not an enactment so that every man who ever should ask from any God or man a request unto days except from you, O king, shall be put into the pit of lions? And said is true and the decree of the Medes and Persians shall not pass.
Then they responded, and they spoke before the king, saying, Daniel, the one from the sons of the captivity of Judea was not submitted your decree; and times of the day he asks of his God the requests of his.
Then the king, as he heard the saying, much over him; and concerning Daniel he struggled to rescue him, and until evening he was struggling to rescue him.
Then 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.
Then the king spoke, and they led Daniel, and they put him into the pit of the lions. But said Daniel, Your God in whom you serve continually, he will rescue you.
And they brought stone and they placed it upon the mouth of the pit, and set seal on it with his ring, and with the ring of his great men; so that should not with regard to Daniel.
And went forth unto his house, and he went to bed supperless; and food was not carried in to him, and sleep left from him.
Then the king rose up in the morning at the light. And in haste he came unto the pit of the lions.
And at his approaching to the pit to Daniel, O servant of the living God, your God in whom you serve continually, was he able to rescue you from out of of the lions?
And Daniel said to the king, O king, into
My 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, a transgression
Then the king 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.
And spoke and they led the men, the ones accusing Daniel, and into and their sons, and their wives. And they did not come unto the floor of the pit before dominated and all
Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, tribes, to the ones living in all the earth, saying, Peace be multiplied unto you.
From my presence I made a decree for the one in every rule of my kingdom to be trembling and fearing from of the God of Daniel. For he is and into the eons, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his dominion
He takes hold of and he rescues, and he produces signs and miracles in the heaven and upon the earth, who rescued Daniel from of the lions.
And Daniel prospered during the kingdom of Darius, and during the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian.