Daniel 6:22
my God has sent His messenger, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not injured me: because that before Him purity has been found in me; and also before you, O king, injury I have not done.”
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In Context
21Then Daniel has spoken with the king: “O king, live for all ages:
Cross References
Genesis 40:15for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they have put me in the pit [for].”
1 Samuel 17:37And David says, “YHWH, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He delivers me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul says to David, “Go, and YHWH is with you.”
1 Samuel 26:18And he says, “Why [is] this—my lord is pursuing after his servant? For what have I done, and what evil [is] in my hand?
1 Kings 13:28And he goes and finds his carcass cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion are standing near the carcass—the lion has not eaten the carcass nor destroyed the donkey.
Psalms 7:1A SHIGGAION OF DAVID, THAT HE SUNG TO YHWH CONCERNING THE WORDS OF CUSH, A BENJAMITE. O YHWH, my God, in You I have trusted, || Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.
Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence, || And I go around Your altar, O YHWH.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 6:19-25
Daniel's Preservation and Deliverance. ( b. c. 537.) 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him. 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from… Read the whole commentary →