006:014 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased,
and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored
until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
006:015 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said
to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes
and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king
establishes may be changed.
006:016 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel,
and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke
and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually,
he will deliver you.
006:017 A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den;
and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet
of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
006:018 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting;
neither were instruments of music brought before him:
and his sleep fled from him.
006:019 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste
to the den of lions.
006:020 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a
lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel,
servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually,
able to deliver you from the lions?
006:021 Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.
006:022 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they
have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me;
and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt.
006:023 Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they
should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken
up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him,
because he had trusted in his God.
006:024 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel,
and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children,
and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them,
and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came
to the bottom of the den.
006:025 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages,
who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
006:026 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble
and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God,
and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed;
and his dominion shall be even to the end.
006:027 He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in
heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power
of the lions.
006:028 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign
of Cyrus the Persian.
007:001 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel
had a dream and visions of his head on his bed:
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