Daniel 6:7

6:7 To all the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors it seemed like a good idea for a royal edict to be issued and an interdict to be enforced. For the next thirty days anyone who prays ¹  to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.

Daniel 6:24

6:24 The king gave another order, ²  and those men who had maliciously accused ³  Daniel were brought and thrown ⁴  into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. ⁵  They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

¹ tn Aram “prays a prayer.”

² tn Aram “said.”

³ tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.

⁴ tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.

⁵ tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.