As soon as Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he “entered into his house, and, the windows in his roof chamber being open for him toward Jerusalem, even three times in a day he was kneeling on his knees and praying and offering praise before his God, as he had been regularly doing prior to this. ”
دشمنان دانیال ،‏ داریوش پادشاه را راضی کردند چنین حکمی صادر کند :‏ « هر کسی که تا سی روز از خدایی یا انسانی سوای تو ای پادشاه مسئلتی نماید در چاه شیران افکنده شود .‏ »