Daniel 6:18

(6:19) Then went the king to his palace, and passed the night fasting: and no food was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

In Context

17(6:18) And a stone was brought, and placed upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet-ring, and with the signet-ring of his lords, that nothing should be changed in the purpose concerning Daniel.

19(6:20) Then arose the king by the morning-dawn, as soon as it was light, and went in great haste unto the den of lions.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16And David besought God in behalf of the lad; and David kept a fast, and came home, and lay over night upon the earth.

1 Kings 21:27And it came to pass, when Achab heard these words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in the sackcloth, and walked about barefooted.

Job 21:12They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

Psalms 137:2Upon the willows in her midst had we hung up our harps.

Isaiah 24:8At rest is the mirth of the tambourines; ceased hath the tumult of the joyful; at rest is the mirth of the harp.

Daniel 2:1And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, whereat his spirit was troubled, and his sleep that was upon him was gone.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 6:12-18

Daniel in the Den of Lions. ( b. c. 537.) 11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 13 Then answered… Read the whole commentary →

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