And they nighed and spake to the king of the commandment, King, whether thou ordainedest not, that each man that asked any asking of gods and of men, till to thirty days, no but of thee, thou king, he should be sent into the pit of lions? To which men the king answered, and said, The word is sooth, by the decree of Medes and Persians, which it is not leaveful to break.