Daniel 6:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They went back to the king and said, “Didn't you make a law that forbids anyone to pray to any god or human except you for the next thirty days? And doesn't the law say that everyone who disobeys it will be thrown into a pit of lions?” “Yes, that's the law I made,” the king agreed. “And just like all written laws of the Medes and Persians, it cannot be changed.”

Cross References

Esther 1:19

Your Majesty, if you agree, you should write for the Medes and Persians a law that can never be changed. This law would keep Queen Vashti from ever seeing you again. Then you could let someone who respects you be queen in her place.

Daniel 6:15

At sunset the men returned and said, “Your Majesty, remember that no written law of the Medes and Persians can be changed, not even by the king.”

Daniel 6:8

Order this to be written and then sign it, so it cannot be changed, just as no written law of the Medes and Persians can be changed.”

Acts 16:19

When the girl's owners realized that they had lost all chances for making more money, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them into court.

Acts 16:24

The jailer did as he was told. He put them deep inside the jail and chained their feet to heavy blocks of wood.