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Daniel 6:7
7All the officers in the kingdom have decided on a good idea. All the rulers, the judges, the wise people, and the leaders in the different regions agree. We think that the king should make a strong law. For 30 days, people must pray only to you, the king. If they pray to any other person or god, you must punish them. Your servants must throw them into the cave where your lions live.
Daniel 6:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.
- English Standard Version (ESV)All the high officials of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.
- New King James Version (NKJV)All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.
Context of Daniel 6:7
5Then these men said to each other, ‘We cannot find anything that Daniel does wrong in his work. We must find something that he does to obey the laws of his God.’ 6So the officers and rulers agreed together what they would do. They went to the king and they said, ‘King Darius, live for ever! All the officers in the kingdom have decided on a good idea. All the rulers, the judges, the wise people, and the leaders in the different regions agree. We think that the king should make a strong law. For 30 days, people must pray only to you, the king. If they pray to any other person or god, you must punish them. Your servants must throw them into the cave where your lions live. 8You should write down this law and then you should write your name on it, as king. Then it will be a law of the Medes and the Persians which nobody can change.’ 9King Darius agreed. He wrote his name on this new law.
Read all of Daniel 6Daniel 6:7 word by word
אִתְיָעַ֜טוּ כֹּ֣ל׀ סָרְכֵ֣י מַלְכוּתָ֗א סִגְנַיָּ֤א וַֽאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּא֙ הַדָּֽבְרַיָּ֣א וּפַחֲוָתָ֔א לְקַיָּמָ֤ה קְיָם֙ מַלְכָּ֔א וּלְתַקָּפָ֖ה אֱסָ֑ר דִּ֣י כָל־דִּֽי־יִבְעֵ֣ה בָ֠עוּ מִן־כָּל־אֱלָ֨הּ וֶֽאֱנָ֜שׁ עַד־יוֹמִ֣ין תְּלָתִ֗ין לָהֵן֙ מִנָּ֣ךְ מַלְכָּ֔א יִתְרְמֵ֕א לְגֹ֖ב אַרְיָוָתָֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Allכֹּלkôl · allH3606
- the presidentsסָרֵךְsârêk · chiefH5632
- of the kingdomמַלְכוּmalkû · kingdomH4437
- the governorsסְגַןsegan · prefectH5460
- and the princesאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִין'ăchashdarpan · satrapH324
- the counsellorsהַדָּבָרhaddâbâr · counselorH1907
- and the captainsפֶּחָהpechâh · governorH6347
- have consulted togetherיְעַטye‛aţ · to counselH3272
- to establishקוּםqûm · to stand: establishH6966
- a royalמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4430
- statuteקְיָםqeyâm · statuteH7010
- and to make a firmתְּקֵףteqêph · to grow strongH8631
- decreeאֱסָר'ĕsâr · injunctionH633
- that whosoever shall askבְּעָאbe‛â' be‛âh · to askH1156
- a petitionבָּעוּbâ‛û · petitionH1159
- ofמִן־min · fromH4481
- Godאֱלָהּ'ĕlâhh · godH426
- or manאֱנָשׁ'ĕnâsh 'ĕnash · manH606
- forעַד‛ad · tillH5705
- thirtyתְּלָתִיןtelâthîyn · thirtyH8533
- daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3118
- saveלָהֵןlâhên · exceptH3861
- he shall be castרְמָאremâh · to castH7412
- into the denגֹּבgôb · denH1358
- of lionsאַרְיֵה'aryêh · lionH744
Cross-references for Daniel 6:7
- Daniel 6:2He also chose three other men to be his officers. He gave them authority over the 120 rulers. The king wanted to be sure that they were working well. Daniel was one of the three officers.
- Daniel 3:2Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent a message to all his government officers. He told them to meet together in the place where the statue was. He wanted them to see that he had built a great statue.
- Psalms 2:2Kings and rulers decide to work together, to fight against the Lord and the king that he has chosen.
- Psalms 59:3Look at them! They are waiting to kill me! Cruel men are ready to attack me. Lord, I have not done anything against them, but they still want to kill me.
- Psalms 62:4You only want to push me off my high place. You love to tell lies to deceive people. When you say words to bless people, you are cursing them in your thoughts. Selah.
- Psalms 83:1God, do not continue to be silent! Do not remain quiet. Please do something!
- Psalms 94:20You will not become a friend of cruel rulers. They make laws that only hurt people.
- Micah 6:5My people, please remember the bad things that King Balak of Moab tried to do. And remember what Balaam, Beor's son, answered him. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal. Then you will remember that I, the Lord, do good things.’
- Matthew 12:14Then the Pharisees went out from the meeting place. They began to talk to each other about how they could kill Jesus.
- Matthew 26:4They wanted to kill Jesus. But they wanted to take hold of him secretly. So they tried to decide how they could do that.
- Mark 15:1Very early the next morning, all the Jewish leaders met together. The leaders of the priests met with the leaders, the teachers of God's Law, and the other important Jews. They decided what they would do. They tied Jesus' hands and feet and they took him to Pilate's house. They put him under Pilate's authority.
- John 12:10So the leaders of the priests decided to kill not only Jesus, but Lazarus too.
- Acts 4:5The next day, the Jewish rulers and other important Jews met together in Jerusalem. The teachers of God's Law met together with them.
- Daniel 3:6The king will punish anyone who does not do that. His soldiers will throw them immediately into a very hot fire.’
- Psalms 10:9Quietly, he hides like a lion among some bushes. He waits there to catch a poor, weak person. Like a hunter, he catches poor people in his net.
- Nahum 2:12The lion killed to give enough food to his young lions and he strangled animals to feed his female lion. He filled his home with the animals that he had killed.
Commentaries on Daniel 6:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Whosoever shall ask a petition - What pretense could they urge for so silly an ordinance? Probably to flatter the ambition of the king, they pretend to make him a god for thirty days; so that the whole empire should make prayer and supplication to him, and pay him Divine honors! This was the bait; but their real object was to destroy Daniel.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7All the presidents of the kingdom, the governor - Several functionaries are enumerated here who are not in the previous verses, as having entered into the conspiracy. It is possible, indeed, that all these different classes of officers had been consulted, and had concurred in asking the enactment of the proposed law; but it is much more probable that the leaders merely represented or affirmed what is here said in order to be more certain of the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-10Verses 6-10 To forbid prayer for thirty days, is, for so long, to rob God of all the tribute he has from man, and to rob man of all the comfort he has in God. Does not every man's heart direct him, when in want or distress, to call upon God? We could not live a day without God; and can men live thirty days without prayer? Yet it is to be feared that those who, without any decree forbidding them, present no hearty, serious petitions to God for more than…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7the king should establish an ordinance: The request seemed to appeal to truth and justice, but it actually targeted the king’s pride with hidden motives (Daniel 6:4–5). We already know that Daniel would not disobey God's law to follow a human command (compare Daniel 1:5–8; 3:4–12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. The Persian king was regarded as representative of the chief god, Ormuzd; the seven princes near him represented the seven Amshaspands before the throne of Ormuzd; hence Mordecai (Es 3:4) refused such homage to Haman, the king's prime minister, as inconsistent with what is due to God alone. A weak despot, like Darius, much under the control of his princes, might easily be persuaded that such a decree would test the obedience of the Chaldeans just…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Daniel 6
- 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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