Daniel 6:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.”

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.

Esther 3:12

On the thirteenth day of Nisan, Haman called in the king's secretaries and ordered them to write letters in every language used in the kingdom. The letters were written in the name of the king and sealed by using the king's own ring. At once they were sent to the king's highest officials, the governors of each province, and the leaders of the different nations in the kingdom of Xerxes.

Esther 8:10

They were written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with his ring. Then they were taken by messengers who rode the king's finest and fastest horses.

Esther 8:3

Once again Esther went to speak to the king. This time she fell down at his feet, crying and begging, “Please stop Haman's evil plan to have the Jews killed!”

Esther 8:8

I now give you permission to make a law that will save the lives of your people. You may use my ring to seal the law, so that it can never be changed.”

Psalm 94:21

who gang up to murder innocent victims.

Isaiah 10:1

You people are in for trouble! You have made cruel and unfair laws

Daniel 6:12

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.”

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.”

Matthew 24:35

The sky and the earth won't last for ever, but my words will.