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Daniel, Chapter 6

¹ ^a Ch 6:2 in AramIt seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom, ² and over them three commissioners (of whom Daniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer loss. ³ Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself^b Lit aboveamong the commissioners and satraps because^c Lit there was in himhe possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom. ⁴ Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to^d Lit the kingdomgovernment affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him. ⁵ Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the law of his God.”	2 Dan 2:48 Dan 2:49 Dan 5:16 Dan 5:29 Ezr 4:22 Est 7:4 3 Dan 5:12 Dan 5:14 Dan 9:23 Gen 41:40 Est 10:3 4 Gen 43:18 Jdg 14:4 Jer 20:10 Dan 3:8 Luk 20:20 Dan 6:22 Luk 20:26 Luk 23:14 Luk 23:15 Php 2:15 Pe1 2:12 Pe1 3:16 5 Act 24:13-16 Act 24:20 Act 24:21
⁶ Then these commissioners and satraps came^e Or throngingby agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever! ⁷ All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’^f Or pit, and so throughout the chden. ⁸ Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which^g Lit does not pass awaymay not be revoked.” ⁹ Therefore King Darius signed the document, that is, the injunction.	6 Neh 2:3 Dan 2:4 Dan 5:10 Dan 6:21 7 Dan 3:2 Dan 3:27 Psa 59:3 Psa 62:4 Psa 64:2-6 Psa 83:1-3 Psa 10:9 Dan 3:6 Dan 6:16 8 Est 3:12 Est 8:10 Isa 10:1 Est 1:19 Est 8:8 Dan 6:12 Dan 6:15 9 Psa 118:9 Psa 146:3
¹⁰ Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God,^h Or becauseas he had been doing previously. ¹¹ Then these men cameⁱ Or throngingby agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. ¹² Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which^j Lit does not pass awaymay not be revoked.” ¹³ Then they answered and spoke before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the^k Lit sons of the exileexiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day.”	10 Ki1 8:44 Ki1 8:48 Ki1 8:49 Psa 5:7 Jon 2:4 Psa 55:17 Psa 95:6 Dan 9:4-19 Psa 34:1 Php 4:6 Th1 5:17 Th1 5:18 11 Psa 37:32 Psa 37:33 Dan 6:6 12 Dan 3:8-12 Act 16:19-21 Est 1:19 Dan 6:8 Dan 6:15 13 Dan 2:25 Dan 5:13 Est 3:8 Dan 3:12 Act 5:29
¹⁴ Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him. ¹⁵ Then these men came^l Or throngingby agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”	14 Mar 6:26 15 Est 8:8 Psa 94:20 Psa 94:21 Dan 6:8 Dan 6:12
¹⁶ Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “^m Or May your God...Himself deliver youYour God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.” ¹⁷ A stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed in regard to Daniel. ¹⁸ Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.	16 Sa2 3:39 Jer 38:5 Dan 6:7 Job 5:19 Psa 37:39 Psa 37:40 Isa 41:10 Dan 3:17 Dan 3:28 Dan 6:20 Co2 1:10 17 Ljr 3:53 Mat 27:66 18 Sa2 12:16 Sa2 12:17 Est 6:1 Psa 77:4 Dan 2:1
¹⁹ Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions’ den. ²⁰ When he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?” ²¹ Then Daniel spokeⁿ Lit withto the king, “O king, live forever! ²² My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as^o Lit innocence was found for meI was found innocent before Him; and also^p Lit beforetoward you, O king, I have committed no crime.” ²³ Then the king was very pleased and gave orders for Daniel to be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no injury whatever was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. ²⁴ The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had^q Lit eaten the pieces of Danielmaliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.	20 Dan 6:16 Dan 6:27 Gen 18:14 Num 11:23 Jer 32:17 Dan 3:17 21 Dan 2:4 Dan 6:6 22 Num 20:16 Isa 63:9 Dan 3:28 Act 12:11 Heb 1:14 Psa 91:11-13 Ti2 4:17 Heb 11:33 23 Dan 3:25 Dan 3:27 Ch1 5:20 Ch2 20:20 Psa 118:8 Psa 118:9 Isa 26:3 Dan 3:17 Dan 3:28 24 Deu 19:18 Deu 19:19 Est 7:10 Deu 24:16 Ki2 14:6 Est 9:10
²⁵ Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every^r Lit tonguelanguage who were living in all the land: “May your^s Or welfare or prosperitypeace abound! ²⁶ ^t Lit From me a decree is madeI make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel; For He is the living God and enduring forever, And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, And His dominion will be^u Lit to the endforever. ²⁷ “He delivers and rescues and performs signs and wonders In heaven and on earth, Who has also delivered Daniel from the^v Lit handpower of the lions.”	25 Ezr 1:1 Ezr 1:2 Est 3:12 Est 8:9 Dan 4:1 Ezr 4:17 Pe1 1:2 26 Ezr 6:8-12 Ezr 7:13 Ezr 7:21 Dan 3:29 Dan 4:34 Dan 6:20 Hos 1:10 Rom 9:26 Psa 93:1 Psa 93:2 Mal 3:6 Dan 2:44 Dan 4:3 Dan 7:14 Dan 7:27 Luk 1:33 27 Dan 4:2 Dan 4:3
²⁸ So this Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.	28 Dan 1:21 Ch2 36:22 Ch2 36:23 Dan 10:1


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