12:1
The conspirators attempted again to destroy Dani’el by binding piety to an imperial prohibition.
12:2
He continued his appointed prayer and would not make the king the final hearer of petitions.
12:3
He was preserved from the instrument of death prepared for him, and the plot returned upon those who fashioned it.
12:4
Dani’el’s survival is presented as a sign that the revelation must reach the generation appointed to read it.