1 Kings 21:8

21:8 She wrote out orders, ¹  signed Ahab’s name to them, ²  and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders ³  to the leaders ⁴  and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. ⁵ 

Daniel 6:8

6:8 Now let the king issue a written interdict ⁶  so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. ⁷ 

Daniel 6:12

6:12 So they approached the king and said to him, ⁸  “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, ⁹  according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

Daniel 6:15

6:15 Then those men came by collusion to the king and ¹⁰  said to him, ¹¹  “Recall, ¹²  O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”

¹ tn Heb “scrolls.”

² tn Heb “in the name of Ahab.”

³ tn Heb “scrolls.”

⁴ tn Heb “elders.”

⁵ tn Heb “to the nobles who were in his city, the ones who lived with Naboth.”

⁶ tn Aram “establish a written interdict and inscribe a written decree.”

⁷ tn Or “removed.”

⁸ tc The MT also has “about the edict of the king,” but this phrase is absent in the LXX and the Syriac. The present translation deletes the expression.

⁹ tn Aram “the word is true.”

¹⁰ tc Theodotion lacks the words “came by collusion to the king and.”

¹¹ tn Aram “the king.”

¹² tn Aram “know”; NAB “Keep in mind”; NASB “Recognize”; NIV, NCV “Remember.”