| Acts 16:19Bible in Basic English 1965But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;See the chapter | 
Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.