Dan 6 | TSK | STEP | Daniel is made chief of the presidents. They, conspiring against him, obtain an idolatrous decree. Daniel, accused of the breach thereof, is cast into the lion's den. Daniel is saved; his adversaries devoured; and God magnified by a decree. Darius. an.

thought.Intended to make him grand vizier or {emiru'l umra.} Daniel had now been employed full sixty-five years as prime minister under the kings of Babylon; and was justly entitled, from his acknowledged wisdom, to this preference.

Cir. A.M. 3467. B.C. 537. sought.

3:8; Ge 43:18; Jud 14:4; Ps 37:12,13,32,33; Pr 29:27; Ec 4:4

Jer 18:18,23; 20:10; Mt 26:4; 27:18; Lu 20:20; 22:2

but.

1Sa 18:14; 19:4,5; 22:14; Lu 23:14,15; Joh 19:4; 2Co 11:12

Php 2:15; 1Ti 5:14; Tit 2:8; 1Pe 2:12; 3:16; 4:14-16

1Sa 24:17; Es 3:8; Joh 19:6,7; Ac 24:13-16,20,21

assembled together. or, came tumultuously.

11; Ps 56:6; 62:3; 64:2-6; Mt 27:23-25; Lu 23:23-25; Ac 22:22,23

King.

21; 2:4; 3:9; 5:10; Ne 2:3; Ac 24:2

All.

2,3; 3:2,27

have consulted.

Ps 2:2; 59:3; 62:4; 83:1-3; 94:20; Mic 6:5; Mt 12:14; 26:4; Mr 15:1

Joh 12:10; Ac 4:5-7,26-28

decree. or, interdict. he shall.

3:6,11; Ps 10:9; Na 2:12

establish.

Es 3:12; 8:10; Isa 10:1

according.

12,15; Es 1:19; 8:3

altereth not. Chal. passeth not.

Mt 24:35

signed.

Ps 62:9,10; 118:9; 146:3; Pr 6:2; Isa 2:22

when.

Lu 14:26; Ac 4:17-19

his windows.

1Ki 8:30,38,44,48-50; 2Ch 6:38; Ps 5:7; Jon 2:4; Heb 4:16

he kneeled.

1Ki 8:54; 2Ch 6:13; Ezr 9:5; Ps 95:6; Lu 22:41; Ac 7:60; 9:40; 20:36

Ac 21:5; Eph 3:14

three.

13; Ps 55:17; 86:3; *marg:

Ac 2:1,2,15; 3:1; 10:9

gave.

Ps 34:1; Php 4:6; Col 3:17; 1Th 5:17,18; Heb 13:15

as he.

Ne 6:11; Ps 11:1,2; Mt 10:28-33; Lu 12:4-9; Ac 4:18,19,29

Ac 5:20,29,40-42; 20:24; Php 1:14,20; Re 2:10,13

assembled.

6; Ps 10:9; 37:32,33

they.

3:8-12; Ac 16:19,24; 24:2-9

the den.It is probable that these lions were kept for the purpose of devouring certain criminals, whom the laws might consign to that kind of death.

The thing.

8; Es 1:19

That Daniel.

1:6; 2:25; 5:13

regardeth.

3:12; Es 3:8; Ac 5:29; 17:7

was sore.The king now clearly perceived for what purpose the decree had been solicited; and was exceedingly displeased with himself that he had suffered himself to be so deluded.

3:13; Mt 27:17-24; Mr 6:26; Lu 23:13-21; Joh 19:7-12

and he.He strove during the whole day, by every means, to evade or annul the edict; but the foolish constitution of his government (exactly the reverse of the happy rule for the conduct of our gracious monarch) did not allow them to pardon any person who had broken one of their decrees, however arbitrary and unreasonable.

2Sa 3:28,29

Know.

8,12; Es 8:8; Ps 94:20,21

the king.

2Sa 3:39; Pr 29:25; Jer 26:14; 38:5; Mt 14:8-10; 27:23-26

Mr 6:25-28; 15:14,15; Joh 19:12-16; Ac 24:27; 25:9,11; Ro 13:3

Thy God.

20; 3:15,17,28; Job 5:19; Ps 37:39,40; 91:14-16; 118:8,9; Isa 43:2

Ac 27:23,24

a stone.

La 3:53; Mt 27:60-66; Ac 12:4; 16:23,24

and passed.

2Sa 12:16,17; 19:24; 1Ki 21:27; Job 21:12; Ps 137:2; Ec 2:8

Isa 24:8,9; Am 6:4-6; Jon 3:3-9; Re 18:22

instruments. or, table. and.

2:1; Es 6:1; Ps 77:4

Mt 28:1; Mr 16:2; 2Co 2:13; 1Th 3:5

is.

16,27; 3:15,17,28,29

servest.

1Ch 16:11; Ps 71:14-18; 73:23; 119:112; 146:2; Pr 23:17,18; Ho 12:6

Lu 18:1; Ac 6:4; Ro 2:7; Col 4:2; 1Th 5:17,18; Jas 1:25

able.

3:17; Ge 18:14; Nu 11:23; 14:15,16; Jer 32:17; Lu 1:37; 2Co 1:10

2Ti 1:12; 4:16-18; Heb 7:25; Jude 1:24

O king.

6; 2:4; Ne 2:3

My God.

20; 2Sa 22:7; Ps 31:14; 38:21; 118:28; Mic 7:7; Mt 27:46; Joh 20:17

Joh 20:18

hath sent.

3:28; Nu 20:16; 2Ch 32:21; Ps 34:7; Isa 63:9; Ac 12:11; 27:23

hath shut.

1Sa 17:37; Ps 91:11-13; 2Ti 4:17; Heb 11:33

forasmuch.

23; Ps 18:19-24; 26:6; 84:11; Isa 3:10; Ac 24:16; 2Co 1:12

1Jo 3:19-21

and also.

Ge 40:15; 1Sa 24:9-11; 26:18; Ps 7:1-4; Ac 25:8-11

was.

14,18; Ex 18:9; 1Ki 5:7; 2Ch 2:11,12

because.

3:25,27,28; 1Ch 5:20; 2Ch 20:20; Ps 37:40; 118:8,9; 146:3-6

Pr 18:10; Isa 26:3; Mr 9:23; Heb 11:33

and they brought.

De 19:18-20; Es 7:10; 9:25; Pr 11:8

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."

their children.

De 24:16; Jos 7:24,25; 2Ki 14:6; Es 9:10

the lions.

3:22; Ps 54:5; Isa 38:13

king.

4:1; Ezr 1:1,2; Es 3:12; 8:9

Peace.

Ezr 4:17; 1Pe 1:2; 2Pe 1:2; Jude 1:2

make.

3:29; Ezr 6:8-12; 7:12,13

tremble.

Ps 2:11; 99:1-3; 119:120; Isa 66:2; Jer 10:10; Lu 12:5; Heb 12:29