Daniel 6:9

So king Darius signed the document making the decree into a law.

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In The King James Version

Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

In Context

8Now, King, issue a decree and sign the document so that it may not be changed, as directed by the laws of the Medes and Persians, so it cannot be repealed.”

10When Daniel learned that the document had been signed into law, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his upper room toward Jerusalem), and he got down on his knees, as he did three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done before.

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Cross References

Psalms 62:9Surely men of low standing are vanity, and men of high standing are a lie; 1 they will weigh lightly in the scales; 1 weighed together, they are lighter than nothing. 1

Psalms 146:3Do not put your trust in princes 1 or in mankind, in whom there is no salvation. 1

Isaiah 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose life-breath is in his nostrils, 1 for what does he amount to?

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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