Daniel 6:18

Then the king went into his house, and slept without supper, and meats were not brought before him; furthermore and sleep went away from him. (Then the king went back to his palace, and went to bed without any supper, yea, no food was brought before him; but all sleep went away from him.)

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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

17And one stone was brought, and was put on the mouth of the pit, which the king asealed with his ring, and with the ring (s) of his best men, lest anything were done against Daniel.

19Then the king rose in the first (of the) morrowtide, and went hastily to the pit of lions; (Then the king rose early in the morning, and went hastily to the lions’ pit;)

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16And David prayed to the Lord for the little child; and David fasted by fasting, and entered asides half, and lay on the earth (or and lay on the floor all night).

1 Kings 21:27Therefore when Ahab had heard these words, he rent his cloth (or he tore his cloak), and covered his flesh with an hair-shirt, and he fasted, and slept in a sackcloth, and went with the head cast down.

Job 21:12They hold the tympan, and (the) harp; and they (dance with) joy at the sound of the organ.

Psalms 137:2In sallows in the midst thereof; we hanged up our organs. (On the willows nearby; we hung up our harps.)

Isaiah 24:8The joy of tympans ceased, the sound of glad men rested; the sweetness of [the] harp with song was still (ed). (The joy of the drums, or of the tambourines, ceased, the shouts of happy people stopped; the sweetness of the harp was silenced.)

Daniel 2:1In the second year of the realm of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar saw a dream; and his spirit was afeared, and his dream fled away from him. (In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had a dream; and his spirit was afraid, and then his dream fled away from him.)

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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