Daniel 6:24 (KJV)

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And the king commanded and they brought those men which had accused Daniel and they cast them into the den of lions them their children and their wives and the lions had the mastery of them and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den

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Cross-references

and they brought. De 19:18-20 Es 7:10 Es 9:25 Pr 11:8

their children. De 24:16 Jos 7:24 Jos 7:25 2Ki 14:6 Es 9:10

the lions. Da 3:22 Ps 54:5 Isa 38:13

them.This savage act accorded with the customs of those times; contrary to the Divine law which enacted that "the fathers should not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers."

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