Daniel 6:12

Good News Translation

all of them went together to the king to accuse Daniel. They said, “Your Majesty, you signed an order that for the next thirty days anyone who requested anything from any god or from any human being except you, would be thrown into a pit filled with lions.” The king replied, “Yes, that is a strict order, a law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Cross References

Esther 1:19

If it please Your Majesty, issue a royal proclamation that Vashti may never again appear before the king. Have it written into the laws of Persia and Media, so that it can never be changed. Then give her place as queen to some better woman.

Daniel 6:15

Then Daniel's enemies came back to the king and said to him, “Your Majesty knows that according to the laws of the Medes and Persians no order which the king issues can be changed.”

Daniel 6:8

So let Your Majesty issue this order and sign it, and it will be in force, a law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Acts 16:19

When her owners realized that their chance of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the authorities in the public square.

Acts 16:24

Upon receiving this order, the jailer threw them into the inner cell and fastened their feet between heavy blocks of wood.