4:1
Darius exalts Dani’el because of wisdom and integrity, provoking jealousy among other officials.
4:2
They can find no charge except through Dani’el’s faithfulness to prayer and devise a decree that makes his service to Elohim appear disloyal to the king.
4:3
Dani’el continues praying and is cast among the lions, but Yahuah preserves him.
4:4
Darius recognizes the injustice, restores Dani’el, and punishes those who conspired against him.
4:5
This chapter belongs to an expansion absent from some early Recension A witnesses and is retained here with that status noted.