Daniel 6:6-10

⁶So the administrators and governors went as one group to the king and said, “◄Your Majesty/O king►, we wish that you will live a long time!

⁷We administrators and governors and district governors and advisors and other officials have all agreed that you should make a law that everyone must obey. We want you to command that for the next thirty days people may pray only to you. If anyone prays to anyone else, either to a human or to a god, he must be thrown into a pit of lions.

⁸And because laws made by our governments of Media and Persia cannot be changed, we want you, the head of our government, to sign it.”

⁹So King Darius wrote the law and signed it.

¹⁰But when I found out that the king had written and signed that law, I went home. I knelt down in my upstairs room and prayed. I looked toward Jerusalem, and the windows were open with the result that everyone could see me while I was praying. I prayed three times each day, just as I always did, thanking God.