Daniel 6 (NET)

Daniel 6:1¹It seemed like a good idea to Darius to appoint over the kingdom 120 satraps who would be in charge of the entire kingdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 18:21-22Dan 5:31Esth 1:11 Pet 2:14

Daniel 6:2²Over them would be three supervisors, one of whom was Daniel. These satraps were accountable to them, so that the king’s interests might not incur damage.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:48-49Dan 5:16Dan 5:29Esth 7:4Ezra 4:221 Cor 4:21 Sam 2:30Luke 16:2Luke 19:13-27Matt 18:23

Daniel 6:3³Now this Daniel was distinguishing himself above the other supervisors and the satraps, for he had an extraordinary spirit. In fact, the king intended to appoint him over the entire kingdom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:14Gen 41:38-41Prov 22:29Dan 5:12Esth 10:3Dan 9:23Prov 17:27Eccl 2:13Prov 3:3-4Neh 7:2

Daniel 6:4⁴Consequently the supervisors and satraps were trying to find some pretext against Daniel in connection with administrative matters. But they were unable to find any such damaging evidence, because he was trustworthy and guilty of no negligence or corruption.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:16Phil 2:151 Pet 2:12Luke 20:20Luke 23:14-15Matt 27:18Ps 37:32-33Titus 2:8Jer 20:10Eccl 4:4

Daniel 6:5⁵So these men concluded, “We won’t find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is in connection with the law of his God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 24:13-161 Sam 24:17Acts 24:20-21Esth 3:8John 19:6-7

Daniel 6:6⁶So these supervisors and satraps came by collusion to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:4Dan 6:21Neh 2:3Dan 5:10Acts 22:22-23Acts 24:2Dan 3:9Dan 6:11Luke 23:23-25Matt 27:23-25

Daniel 6:7⁷To all the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, counselors, and governors it seemed like a good idea for a royal edict to be issued and an interdict to be enforced. For the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than you, O king, should be thrown into a den of lions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 59:3Dan 3:2Dan 3:27Dan 3:6Ps 62:4Ps 83:1-3Acts 4:26-28John 12:10Mark 15:1Matt 12:14

Daniel 6:8⁸Now let the king issue a written interdict so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:15Esth 1:19Dan 6:12Isa 10:1Esth 3:12Esth 8:10Esth 8:3Esth 8:8Matt 24:35

Daniel 6:9⁹So King Darius issued the written interdict.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:9Ps 146:3Isa 2:22Prov 6:2Ps 62:9-10

Daniel 6:10¹⁰When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:29Ps 55:171 Thess 5:17-18Ps 95:6Heb 13:15Phil 4:6Ps 34:1Ps 5:71 Kgs 8:441 Kgs 8:54

Daniel 6:11¹¹Then those officials who had gone to the king came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 37:32-33Ps 10:9Dan 6:6

Daniel 6:12¹²So they approached the king and said to him, “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:8Dan 3:8-12Esth 1:19Acts 16:19Acts 16:24Acts 24:2-9

Daniel 6:13¹³Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 3:12Acts 5:29Dan 2:25Dan 5:13Esth 3:8Dan 1:6Acts 17:7

Daniel 6:14¹⁴When the king heard this, he was very upset and began thinking about how he might rescue Daniel. Until late afternoon he was struggling to find a way to rescue him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 6:262 Sam 3:28-29Dan 3:13John 19:7-12Luke 23:13-21Matt 27:17-24

Daniel 6:15¹⁵Then those men came by collusion to the king and said to him, “Recall, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:12Dan 6:8Esth 8:8Ps 94:20-21

Daniel 6:16¹⁶So the king gave the order, and Daniel was brought and thrown into a den of lions. The king consoled Daniel by saying, “Your God whom you continually serve will rescue you!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 37:39-40Job 5:19Ps 91:14-16Dan 3:28Isa 43:22 Sam 3:39Ps 118:8-9Dan 3:17Acts 25:11Dan 6:20

Daniel 6:17¹⁷Then a stone was brought and placed over the opening to the den. The king sealed it with his signet ring and with those of his nobles so that nothing could be changed with regard to Daniel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 3:53Acts 12:4Acts 16:23-24Matt 27:60-66

Daniel 6:18¹⁸Then the king departed to his palace. But he spent the night without eating, and no diversions were brought to him. He was unable to sleep.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:1Esth 6:12 Sam 12:16-17Ps 77:41 Kgs 21:272 Sam 19:24Amos 6:4-6Eccl 2:8Isa 24:8-9Job 21:12

Daniel 6:19¹⁹In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions’ den.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 3:52 Cor 2:13Mark 16:2Matt 28:1

Daniel 6:20²⁰As he approached the den, he called out to Daniel in a worried voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, was your God whom you continually serve able to rescue you from the lions?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 16:11Dan 6:27Heb 7:252 Tim 4:16-18Dan 6:161 Thess 5:17-18Dan 3:17Jas 1:252 Cor 1:10Gen 18:14

Daniel 6:21²¹Then Daniel spoke to the king, “O king, live forever!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:4Dan 6:6Neh 2:3

Daniel 6:22²²My God sent his angel and closed the lions’ mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:17Heb 11:33Acts 12:11Ps 91:11-13Acts 24:161 John 3:19-21Ps 84:11Dan 3:28Mic 7:71 Sam 17:37

Daniel 6:23²³Then the king was delighted and gave an order to haul Daniel up from the den. So Daniel was hauled up out of the den. He had no injury of any kind, because he had trusted in his God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:20Dan 3:25Dan 3:27-28Mark 9:23Dan 6:18Isa 26:3Prov 18:10Ps 37:402 Chr 20:20Ps 118:8-9

Daniel 6:24²⁴The king gave another order, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the lions’ den—they, their children, and their wives. They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 38:13Esth 7:102 Kgs 14:6Deut 19:18-20Deut 24:16Esth 9:25Josh 7:24-25Ps 54:5Dan 3:22Esth 9:10

Daniel 6:25²⁵Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: “Peace and prosperity!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:1Ezra 1:1-21 Pet 1:2Esth 3:12Esth 8:9Ezra 4:172 Pet 1:2Jude 1:2

Daniel 6:26²⁶I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God; he endures forever. His kingdom will not be destroyed; his authority is forever.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:34Luke 1:33Dan 4:3Dan 7:14Dan 2:44Dan 3:29Ps 2:11Ps 29:10Ps 99:1-3Dan 6:20

Daniel 6:27²⁷He rescues and delivers and performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:2-3Acts 4:30Ps 18:50Ps 97:102 Cor 1:8-102 Tim 4:17-18Dan 4:34Jer 32:19-20Luke 1:74-75Mark 16:17-18

Daniel 6:28²⁸So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 1:212 Chr 36:22-Ezra 1:2Isa 44:28-45:1Dan 10:1