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Dan. 6:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then they came neare, 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 alterethl not.

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Dan. 3:8• ⁸Whereupon at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. (Dan. 3:8)

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Dan. 6:8• 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 may not be revoked. (Dan. 6:8)

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Dan. 3:8‑12• ⁸Whereupon at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
⁹They spoke and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever!
¹⁰Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
¹¹and that whosoever doth not fall down and worship, shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
¹²There are certain Jews whom thou hast appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: these men, O king, regard thee not; they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set up. (Dan. 3:8‑12)

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Acts 16:19,24• ¹⁹And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the market before the magistrates;
²⁴who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks. (Acts 16:19,24)

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Acts 24:2‑9• ²And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy forethought,
³we receive it always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
⁴But that I may not too much intrude on thy time, I beseech thee to hear us briefly in thy kindness.
⁵For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans;
⁶who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, and would have judged according to our law;
⁷but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took him away with great force out of our hands,
⁸having commanded his accusers to come to thee; of whom thou canst thyself, in examining him, know the certainty of all these things of which we accuse him.
⁹And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against Paul, saying that these things were so. (Acts 24:2‑9)

the den.It is probable that these lions were kept for the purpose of devouring certain criminals, whom the laws might consign to that kind of death.The thing.

Dan. 6:8• 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 may not be revoked. (Dan. 6:8)

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Esther 1:19• ¹⁹If it please the king, let a royal order go forth from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it may not pass, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another that is better than she; (Esther 1:19)

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Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask anything of any god or man within thirty days, except 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 may not be revoked.