Bible verse for October 22

⁷ All the kingdom’s administrators, the prefects and satraps, the advisers and governors, have taken counsel together that the king should put a statute in force and make a ban binding: for thirty days, whoever asks anything of any god or person other than you, O king, will be thrown into the lions’ den. ⁸ So now, O king, put the ban in force and sign the document so that it cannot be altered, in keeping with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.” ⁹ Accordingly, King Darius put his signature on the document and the ban. ¹⁰ Once Daniel knew the document had been signed, he went into his house. Its upper room had windows opening toward Jerusalem, and three times each day he would kneel down, pray, and give thanks before his God, exactly as he used to do before this. ¹¹ Then these men came crowding in and found Daniel asking and begging for favor before his God. ¹² So they came forward and spoke before the king about the king’s ban: “Did you not sign a ban that for thirty days, whoever asks anything of any god or person other than you, O king, will be thrown into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The matter is settled, in keeping with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.” ¹³ Then they said before the king, “Daniel, one of the exiled people of Judah, shows no regard for you, O king, or for the ban you signed. Three times a day he makes his request.”

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