Daniel 6:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So they approached the king  and asked about his edict: ‘Didn’t you sign an edict that for thirty days any person who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den? ’ The king answered, ‘As a law of the Medes and Persians, the order stands  and is irrevocable.’

Cross References

Daniel 6:8

Therefore, Your Majesty, establish the edict  and sign the document so that, as a law of the Medes and Persians, it is irrevocable and cannot be changed.’

Esther 1:19

‘If it meets the king’s approval, he should personally issue a royal decree. Let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be revoked:  Vashti is not to enter King Ahasuerus’s presence, and her royal position is to be given to another woman who is more worthy than she.

Acts 16:19

When her owners realised that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas  and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

Acts 16:24

Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.

Daniel 6:15

Then these men went together to the king and said to him, ‘You know, Your Majesty, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or ordinance the king establishes can be changed.’