Heroes Every Child Should Know

gdom an hundred and twenty princes, w

was first: that the princes might give account

and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him;

ncerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasm

We shall not find any

it against him concer

bled together to the King, and said thu

e consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a

riting, that it be not changed, according to the

ius signed the wri

windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees th

found Daniel praying and makin

an 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 l

e children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O King, nor th

d with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him:

Know, O King, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That

into the den of lions. Now the King spake and said unto Danie

the King sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of hi

night fasting: neither were instruments of musi

y in the morning, and went in

nd the King spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, i

nto the King, O Ki

at they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was

take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, a