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Daniel 6:9

โ€œTherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.โ€

Verse in context โ€” Daniel 6

7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

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 doesn't alter.

9

Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

10

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

11

Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

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