use a
greater spirit of God was in him.

6:4. And the king thought to set him over all the kingdom; whereupon the
princes, and the governors, sought to find occasion against Daniel, with
regard to the king: and they could find no cause, nor suspicion, because
he was faithful, and no fault, nor suspicion was found in him.

6:5. Then these men said: We shall not find any occasion against this
Daniel, unless perhaps concerning the law of his God.

6:6. Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the
king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever:

6:7. All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors, the
senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial decree,
and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any petition of any
god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into
the den of the lions.

6:8. Now, therefore, O king, confirm the sentence, and sign the decree:
that what is decreed by the Medes and Persians may not be altered, nor
any man be allowed to transgress it.

6:9. So king Darius set forth the decree, and established it.

6:10. Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was made,
he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper chamber
towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored and gave
thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before.

6:11. Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying
and making supplication to his God.

6:12. And they came and spoke to the king concerning the edict: O king,
hast thou not decreed, that every man that should make a request to any
of the gods, or men, for thirty days, but to thyself, O king, should be
cast into the den of the lions? And the king answered them, saying: The
word is true, according to the decree of the Medes and Persians, which
it is not lawful to violate.

6:13. Then they answered, and said before the king: Daniel, who is of
the children of the captivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor
the decree that thou hast made: but three times a day he maketh his
prayer.

6:14. Now when the king had heard these words, he was very much grieved,
and in behalf of Daniel he set his heart to deliver him, and even till
sunset he laboured to save him.

6:15. But those men perceiving the king's design, said to him: Know
thou, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree
which th