Daniel 6:9

Daniel 6:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
• New International Version (NIV)So King Darius put the decree in writing.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore King Darius signed the written decree.

Context of Daniel 6:9

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. 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.’ King Darius agreed. He wrote his name on this new law. 10Daniel heard that the king had written this new law. Then he went home. He went upstairs to his room where the windows opened in the direction of Jerusalem. He bent down on his knees and he prayed to God, and he thanked God. He did that three times every day, in the same way that he had always done before. 11Then the officers and rulers who were jealous of Daniel went to see what he would do. They saw that Daniel was praying to God and he was asking God for help.

Daniel 6:9 word by word

כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה מַלְכָּא֙ דָּֽרְיָ֔וֶשׁ רְשַׁ֥ם כְּתָבָ֖א וֶאֱסָרָֽא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whereforeקֳבֵלqebêl qŏbêl · before: becauseH6903
• Whereforeדְּנָהdên · thisH1836
• Whereforeכֹּלkôl · allH3606
• kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4430
• Dariusדָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁdâreyâvêsh · DariusH1868
• signedרְשַׁםresham · to signH7560
• the writingכְּתָבkethâb · inscriptionH3792
• and the decreeאֱסָר'ĕsâr · injunctionH633

Cross-references for Daniel 6:9

• Psalms 62:9People are only as light as a breath! Whoever they are, they are not important. If you try to weigh them, all together, they weigh less than a breath of air.
• Psalms 118:9It is better to trust the Lord to keep you safe, than to trust even in important people.
• Psalms 146:3Do not trust in human leaders. No human can save you.
• Proverbs 6:2Then what you have promised to do may become a trap that catches you.
• Isaiah 2:22Do not trust people to help you. They are weak and they will all die one day. They are not strong enough to help you.

Commentaries on Daniel 6:9

• 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. 1-28God saved and freed his loyal servant Daniel (Daniel 5:23; 6:20), but Belshazzar's lifeless gods could not help him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. Such a despotic decree is quite explicable by remembering that the king, as the incarnation of Ormuzd, might demand such an act of religious obedience as a test of loyalty. Persecuting laws are always made on false pretenses. Instead of bitter complaints against men, Daniel prays to God. Though having vast business as a ruler of the empire, he finds time to pray thrice a day. Daniel's three companions (Da 3:12), are not alluded to here, nor any other…Read the comment

Topics related to Daniel 6:9

• Civil Service
• Conspiracy
• Diplomacy
• Faith
• Indictments
• King
• Malice
• Persia
• Politics
• Religion
• Rulers
• Seal

In the dictionaries

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• Lay
• Media
• Signet
• Temptation
• Aramaic; Aramaic Language
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• Languages of the Old Testament

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