| Reconcile Daniel 6
Daniel 6:7 7 "All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions' den.
Daniel 6:12 12 Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king's injunction, "Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions' den?" The king replied, "The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked."
Daniel 6:18-19 18 Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him. 19 Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions' den.
The injunction that Darius signed called for the offender to be put in the lions den for thirty days. By all accounts Daniel was in the den for one evening. What happened here? Did Darius forgo the other 29 days once he saw that Daniel had survived the night? Is there something else I am missing?
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