Daniel 6:12

Modern English Version

Then they approached the king and said concerning the king’s decree: “Have you not signed a decree, that every man who asks a petition of any god or man within thirty days, save of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be altered.”

Cross References

Esther 1:19

“If it pleases the king, let a royal decree be sent by him, and let it be written in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it may not be altered, that Vashti can never enter into the presence of King Ahasuerus, and that the king will give her royal position to another woman who is better than she.

Daniel 6:15

Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

Daniel 6:8

Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be altered.”

Acts 16:19

When her masters saw that the hope of their profits was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers.

Acts 16:24

Having received such an order, he threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.