Daniel 6:6-10

⁶Then these presidents and satraps rushed together to the king, and spake thus to him: King Darius, live forever!

⁷All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors and the satraps, the counsellors and the prefects, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

⁸Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians which altereth not.

⁹Wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree.

¹⁰Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he kneeled upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done before.