t Comp. History of Israel, V., 23 sq. ; IV., 33.
J Ibid, VI., 166 ; comp. infra Dan. ix. 21.
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no respect ! nor to the prohibition which thou didst issue, | and
three times a day raaketh his prayer." || Then the king as soon
as he heard the word was greatly pained, and upon Daniel set his
thought to save him : | and till the hours of the sunset he
employed himself unceasingly to deliver him. |{ Then those men
rushed to the king and say to the king | *' Know O king that the
Medes and Persians have a law that no prohibition or decree
which the king may establish can be altered !" || Then the king
commanded and they fetched Daniel and cast him into that
lion's den, | the king answered and said to Daniel "thy God
whom thou servest without ceasing may he save thee ! " || and
a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the cave, | and
the king sealed it with his own seal and with the seal of his
magnates, that nothing should be altered with Daniel.
19 Then went the king unto his palace and spent the night



perhaps for a few days seen him three
times a day praying and heard him
singing to his God, they think they
have witnesses enough to bring against
him : they fall upon him nnawares and
find him in this attitude, yy. 11, 12.
