Daniel 6:9

Therefore King Darius has signed the writing and interdict.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

In Context

8Now, O king, you establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it is not to be changed, as a law of Media and Persia, that does not pass away.”

10And Daniel, when he has known that the writing is signed, has gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, toward Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing [it] before this.

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Cross References

Psalms 62:9Surely vanity the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up || They [are] lighter than a breath.

Psalms 146:3Do not trust in princes—in a son of man, || For he has no deliverance.

Isaiah 2:22Cease yourselves from man, || Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, || For—in what is he esteemed?

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 →

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