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Daniel 6:7

We administrators and governors and district governors and advisors and other officials have all agreed that you should make a law that everyone must obey. We want you to command that for the next thirty days people may pray only to you. If anyone prays to anyone else, either to a human or to a god, he must be thrown into a pit of lions.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6So the administrators and governors went as one group to the king and said, “◄Your Majesty/O king►, we wish that you will live a long time!

8And because laws made by our governments of Media and Persia cannot be changed, we want you, the head of our government, to sign it.”

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Cross References

Psalms 2:2The kings of the nations prepare to revolt; the rulers plot together to fight against Yahweh and against his chosen king.

Psalms 59:3Look! They are waiting to kill me! Fierce men have gathered to assault me. Yahweh, they are doing that even though I have not done what is wrong!

Psalms 62:4My enemies plan to remove me from my important position so that people no longer honor me. They delight in telling lies. They bless people by what they say [MTY], but in their inner beings they curse those people. (Think about that!)

Psalms 83:1God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,

Daniel 2:4The men who studied the stars replied to the king, speaking in the Aramaic language. They said, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we hope that you will live a long time! Tell us what you dreamed, and then we will tell you what it means!”

Daniel 3:6Anyone who refuses to do that will be thrown into a blazing furnace!”

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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