Daniel 6:6-10

⁶Then the governors and satraps stood by the king, and said to him, King Darius, live for ever.

⁷All who preside over your kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statue and to confirm a decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

⁸Now then, O king, establish the decree, and publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes be not changed.

⁹Then king Darius commanded the decree to be written.

¹⁰And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his chambers towards Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.