Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation All of us who administer your empire--the supervisors, the governors, the lieutenant governors, and the other officials--have agreed that Your Majesty should issue an order and enforce it strictly. Give orders that for thirty days no one be permitted to request anything from any god or from any human being except from Your Majesty. Anyone who violates this order is to be thrown into a pit filled with lions. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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. All. Daniel 6:2,3 And three princes over them of whom Daniel was one: that the governors might give an account to them, and the king might have no trouble. . . . Daniel 3:2,27 Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, sent to call together the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains, the rulers, and governors, and all the chief men of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up. . . . have consulted. Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ. Psalm 59:3 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me: Psalm 62:4 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart. Psalm 83:1-3 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. [2] O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God. . . . Psalm 94:20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? Micah 6:5 O my people, remember, I pray thee, what Balach, the king of Moab, purposed: and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, from Setim to Galgal, that thou mightest know the justice of the Lord. Matthew 12:14 And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. Matthew 26:4 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death. Mark 15:1 And straightway in the morning, the chief priests holding a consultation with the ancients and the scribes and the whole council, binding Jesus, led him away and delivered him to Pilate. John 12:10 But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also: Acts 4:5-7,26-28 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. . . . decree. Daniel 3:6,11 But if any man shall not fall down and adore, he shall the same hour be cast into a furnace of burning fire. . . . Psalm 10:9 His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him. Nahum 2:12 The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine. Context The Plot Against Daniel…6Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever: 7All 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.8Now, 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.… Cross References Psalm 10:9 His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him. Psalm 59:3 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me: Psalm 62:4 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart. Psalm 64:2 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. Psalm 83:1 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. [2] O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God. Psalm 83:5 For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee, Daniel 3:2 Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, sent to call together the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains, the rulers, and governors, and all the chief men of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up. Daniel 3:6 But if any man shall not fall down and adore, he shall the same hour be cast into a furnace of burning fire. Daniel 3:27 For thou art just in all that thou hast done to us, and all thy works are true, and thy ways right, and all thy judgments true. Daniel 6:16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of the lions. And the king said to Daniel: Thy God, whom thou always servest, he will deliver thee. 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