And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; 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?
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
For there stood by me this night an angel of the God whose I am, whom also I serve,
who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;