DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Daniel, thrown in for praying to God despite a royal decree (Daniel 6). He's found unharmed at dawn.
Why it’s interesting
The lions' den is a court tale about staying faithful under a foreign king — a theme running through the whole first half of Daniel, set in the Babylonian and Persian courts.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.