Would you keep praying if it were against the rules?
Jealous officials trick King Darius into signing a law against praying to anyone but the king. Daniel keeps praying by his open window, three times a day, as he always has. He is put in the lions’ den, the king lies awake all night, and at dawn Daniel is found safe: God shut the lions’ mouths.
Jealous officials trick King Darius into signing a law against praying to anyone but the king. Daniel keeps praying by his open window, three times a day, as he always has. He is put in the lions’ den, the king lies awake all night, and at dawn Daniel is found safe: God shut the lions’ mouths.
Kids play King Darius and Daniel, make 4 choices, and use all 8 ways of knowing across 4 stops. It ends with the king praising “the living God,” and leaves out what happened to the accusers (Daniel 6:24). Calm mode hides the lions.
Ages 5–11
He could have. He chose to keep doing openly what he’d always done, because hiding it would have meant the law mattered more than God.
Daniel 6. Daniel, a Jewish exile, has become a top official in Persia. Jealous rivals trick King Darius into a law that no one may pray to anyone but the king for thirty days. Daniel keeps praying at his open window, three times a day, as always. The king, trapped by his own law, has him thrown to the lions and then spends the night unable to eat. At dawn Daniel is unharmed: “My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths.” Our story leaves out what happened to the accusers (Daniel 6:24).