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Your Majesty, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father sovereignty, greatness, majesty and glory. (Daniel 5, 18)
But because his heart grew swollen with pride, and his spirit stiff with arrogance, he was deposed from his sovereign throne and stripped of his glory. (Daniel 5, 20)
You have defied the Lord of heaven, you have had the vessels from his Temple brought to you, and you, your noblemen, your wives and the women singing for you have drunk your wine out of them. You have praised gods of gold and silver, of bronze and iron, of wood and stone, which can neither see, hear nor understand; but you have given no glory to the God in whose hands are your breath itself and all your fortunes. (Daniel 5, 23)
That same night, the Chaldaean king Belshazzar was murdered, (Daniel 5, 30)
and over them three presidents -- of whom Daniel was one -- to whom the satraps were to be responsible. This was to safeguard the king's interests. (Daniel 6, 3)
This Daniel, by virtue of the marvellous spirit residing in him, was so evidently superior to the other presidents and satraps that the king considered appointing him to rule the whole kingdom. (Daniel 6, 4)
The presidents and satraps then went in a body to the king. 'King Darius,' they said, 'live for ever! (Daniel 6, 7)
We are all agreed, presidents of the realm, magistrates, satraps, councillors and governors, that the king should issue an edict enforcing the following regulation: Whoever within the next thirty days prays to anyone, divine or human, other than to yourself, Your Majesty, is to be thrown into the lions' den. (Daniel 6, 8)
King Darius accordingly signed the document embodying the edict. (Daniel 6, 10)
They then went to the king and reminded him of the royal edict, 'Have you not signed an edict forbidding anyone for the next thirty days to pray to anyone, divine or human, other than to yourself, Your Majesty, on pain of being thrown into the lions' den?' 'The decision stands' the king replied, ' as befits the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.' (Daniel 6, 13)
They then said to the king, 'Your Majesty, this man Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, disregards both you and the edict which you have signed: he is at his prayers three times each day.' (Daniel 6, 14)
When the king heard these words he was deeply distressed and determined to save Daniel; he racked his brains until sunset to find some way to save him. (Daniel 6, 15)
