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Daniel 2:13
13He sent a message to command them to kill all his wise men. Some men went to look for Daniel and his friends too. They wanted to punish them with death.
Daniel 2:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
- New International Version (NIV)So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So the decree went out, and the wise men were about to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.
Context of Daniel 2:13
11You are asking us to do something much too difficult! Nobody can do it, except the gods. And they do not live among men.’ 12This made the king very angry. So he said to his soldiers, ‘Kill all the wise men in Babylon.’ He sent a message to command them to kill all his wise men. Some men went to look for Daniel and his friends too. They wanted to punish them with death. 14But Daniel spoke carefully to Arioch. He was the captain of the king's soldiers who had gone to kill the wise men of Babylon. 15Daniel said to Arioch, ‘Why is the king's command so cruel?’ Then Arioch explained everything to Daniel.
Read all of Daniel 2Daniel 2:13 word by word
וְדָתָ֣א נֶפְקַ֔ת וְחַכִּֽימַיָּ֖א מִֽתְקַטְּלִ֑ין וּבְע֛וֹ דָּנִיֵּ֥אל וְחַבְר֖וֹהִי לְהִתְקְטָלָֽה׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Daniel 2:13
- Daniel 6:9King Darius agreed. He wrote his name on this new law.
- Esther 3:12On the 13th day of the first month, Haman asked the king's secretaries to come to him. They wrote Haman's commands in letters to the king's rulers and officers in every region. They wrote the letters in the languages that people spoke in the different regions. Haman used the authority of King Xerxes and he marked the letters with the king's special ring.
- Psalms 94:20You will not become a friend of cruel rulers. They make laws that only hurt people.
- Proverbs 28:15A wicked ruler brings danger to poor people. He is as dangerous as an angry lion or a hungry bear.
- Isaiah 10:1It will be very bad for people who make cruel laws that are not fair.
- Daniel 1:19The king spoke with all the young men. He discovered that there was nobody else like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. So they became the king's servants.
- Daniel 6:12So they went to tell the king about this. They said, ‘Remember that you wrote a new law. You commanded that for 30 days, nobody must pray to any god or person, except to you, the king. If anyone prays to someone else, your servants must throw them into the cave where your lions live.’ The king answered them, ‘It is true. It is a law of the Medes and the Persians and nobody can change it.’
Commentaries on Daniel 2:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13They sought Daniel and his fellows - As the decree stated that all the wise men of Babylon should be slain, the four young Hebrews, being reputed among the wisest, were considered as sentenced to death also.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain - The original here will bear a somewhat different translation, meaning, “the decree went forth, “and” the wise men were slain;” that is, the execution of the sentence was actually commenced. So the Vulgate: Et egressa sententia, sapientes interficiebantur. So also the Greek version: ̀ ̔ ́ ̓́ kai hoi sophoi apektennonto - “and the wise men were slain.” This seems to me to be the more probable…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-49God gave a dream that showed the course of world history over the centuries, and Daniel explained its mysterious images. This dream and its interpretation highlight a key theme of the book—the certain final establishment of the kingdom of God as the ultimate goal of history (Daniel 2:44–45; 7:9–14, 26–27). This chapter also shows that paganism cannot understand the actions and plans of Israel’s God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1312-13. Daniel and his companions do not seem to have been actually numbered among the Magi or Chaldeans, and so were not summoned before the king. Providence ordered it so that all mere human wisdom should be shown vain before His divine power, through His servant, was put forth. Da 2:24 shows that the decree for slaying the wise men had not been actually executed when Daniel interposed.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Daniel 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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