Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, 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 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?
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;