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which
is
of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that
thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
14
Then the king, when he heard
these
words, was sore displeased with himself, and set
his
heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured
till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
15
Then these men assembled unto the king, and said
unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians
is,
That no decree nor statute
which the king establisheth may be changed.
16
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel,
and cast
him
into the den of lions.
Now
the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou
servest continually, he will deliver thee.
17
And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of
the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose
might not be changed concerning Daniel.
18
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of
musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
19
Then the king arose very early in the
morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
20
And when he came to the den, he cried with a
lamentable voice unto Daniel:
and
the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living
God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
21
Then said
Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
22
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions
mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also
before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
23
Then was the king exceeding glad for him, 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 upon him, because he believed in his God.
24
And the king commanded, and they brought those men which 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 brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
25
Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth;
Peace be multiplied unto you.
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I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men
tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his
kingdom
that
which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion
shall be even
unto the end.
27
He
delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered
Daniel from the power of the lions.
28
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the
reign of Cyrus the Persian.
CHAPTER 7
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon
his bed: then he wrote the dream,
and
told the sum of the matters.
2
Daniel spake and said, I saw
in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3
And
four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4
The first
was
like a lion, and
had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth,
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