Daniel 6:4-6

EasyEnglish Bible

⁴ The other officers and rulers were jealous. They wanted to find something bad about Daniel so that they could tell the king. They watched how Daniel worked to serve the king. But they could not find that he did any wrong thing. That was because Daniel was good and honest. He always did everything properly. ⁵ Then these men said to each other, ‘We cannot find anything that Daniel does wrong in his work. We must find something that he does to obey the laws of his God.’

⁶ So the officers and rulers agreed together what they would do. They went to the king and they said, ‘King Darius, live for ever!