The Furnace of Blazing Fire

⁸ Some Chaldeans took this occasion to come forward and maliciously accuse^[a](A) the Jews.

¹² So they approached the king^(A) and asked about his edict: “Didn’t you sign an edict that for 30 days any man who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den?”

The king answered, “As a law of the Medes and Persians, the order stands and is irrevocable.”^(B)

¹³ Then they replied to the king, “Daniel, one of the Judean exiles, has ignored you,^(C) the king, and the edict you signed, for he prays three times a day.”