Daniel 6:7
All the leaders of your kingdom, the magistrates and governors, the senators and judges, have taken counsel that an imperial decree and edict should be published, so that all who ask any petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, will be cast into the den of lions.
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Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth have stood up, and the leaders have joined together as one, against the Lord and against his Christ:
Psalms 59:3O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.
Psalms 62:4For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise.
Psalms 83:1Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
Daniel 2:4And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac, “O king, live forever. Tell the dream to your servants, and we will reveal its interpretation.”
Daniel 3:6But if anyone will not bow down and adore, in the same hour he will be cast into a furnace of burning fire.”
Matthew Henry on Daniel 6:7-11
A Plot against Daniel. ( b. c. 537.) 6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and… Read the whole commentary →