The primary example: “Whoever doesn’t bow down and worship will die.”
Each time, the people of God are spared. Either the king makes a subsequent decree (Esther: the people may defend themselves) or a miracle happens (Daniel: the 4th man in the furnace; the lions den).
The whole Bible is set up this same way:
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Genesis 2:17 (NIV)
The Irrevocable Decree: “Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. In the day you eat it, you will surely die.”
Humanity eats the fruit and is doomed to die. Like the advisors/governers of the kings, the serpent brings the people of God into death.
But like the people of God who cry out for rescue, Adam cries out for Life by naming his wife Eve, which means life.
Like the Kings, God leaves the decree of death in place.
But God makes a new decree: the Resurrection.