1Ia menyenangkan Darius untuk menetapkan ke atas kerajaan satu ratus dan dua puluh penguasa, yang harus mengatasi seluruh kerajaan;
2Dan mengatasi para penguasa tersebut ada ditetapkan tiga presiden; yang di antara mereka Daniel adalah yang pertama: supaya para penguasa dapat memberi perhitungan kepada mereka, dan raja tidak dirugikan.
3Kemudian Daniel didahulukan lebih daripada para presiden dan penguasa, kerana roh yang cemerlang ada di dalamnya; dan raja berhasrat untuk menempatkannya atas seluruh kerajaannya.
4Kemudian para presiden dan para penguasa mencari peluang berkenaan kerajaan untuk menentang Daniel ; tetapi mereka tidak dapat mencari apa pun peluang atau kesalahan; kerana dia setia, dan tiada apa pun kesilapan atau kesalahan ditemui di dalamnya.
5Kemudian orang-orang ini berkata, Kita tidak akan dapat menemui apa pun peluang menentang Daniel ini, kecuali kita menemui peluang menentangnya berkenaan hukum Allahnya.
6Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.assembled�: or, came tumultuously
7All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, 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.decree: or, interdict
8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.altereth not: Cald. passeth not
9Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
10Setelah Daniel tahu bahawa surat itu telah ditandatangani, dia pergi ke rumahnya; dan sementara tingkapnya terbuka di kamarnya yang menghadap ke Yerusalem, dia melutut tiga kali sehari, dan berdoa, dan memberi syukur di hadapan Allah, seperti yang dia buat dari dahulu.
11Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
12Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
13Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, 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.
14Then 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.
15Then 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.
16Then 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.
17And 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.
18Then 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.instruments�: or, table
19Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
20And 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?
21Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
22My 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.
23Then 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.
24And 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.
25Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
26I 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.
27He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.power: Cald. hand
28So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.