²and over them three commissioners (of whom ^aDaniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer ^bloss.

³Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself ¹among the commissioners and satraps because ²he possessed an ^aextraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the ^bentire kingdom.

⁴Then the commissioners and satraps began ^atrying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to ¹government affairs; but they could find ^bno ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.

⁵Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the ^alaw of his God.”

⁶Then these commissioners and satraps came ¹by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, ^alive forever!

⁷“All the ^acommissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have ^bconsulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall ^cbe cast into the lions’ ¹den.

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Footnotes

1Ch 6:2 in Aram
1Lit above
2Lit there was in him
1Lit the kingdom
1Or thronging
1Or pit, and so throughout the ch

Cross references

a Dan 2:48, 49; 5:16, 29
b Ezra 4:22; Esth 7:4
a Dan 5:12, 14; 9:23
b Gen 41:40; Esth 10:3
a Gen 43:18; Judg 14:4; Jer 20:10; Dan 3:8; Luke 20:20
b Dan 6:22; Luke 20:26; 23:14, 15; Phil 2:15; 1 Pet 2:12; 3:16
a Acts 24:13–16, 20, 21
a Neh 2:3; Dan 2:4; 5:10; 6:21
a Dan 3:2, 27
b Ps 59:3; 62:4; 64:2–6; 83:1–3
c Ps 10:9; Dan 3:6; 6:16