Daniel 6:6-10

6 Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: "King Darius, ¹live forever!

7 "All the ²commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have ³consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides * you, O king, for thirty days, shall ⁴be cast into the lions' den.

8 "Now, O king, ⁵establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the ⁶law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked."

9 Therefore * * King Darius ⁷signed the document, that is, the injunction.

10 Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open ⁸toward Jerusalem ); and he continued ⁹kneeling on his knees three times a day, ¹⁰praying and ¹¹giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

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Daniel 6:6-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 6

This chapter gives an account of Daniel's being cast into the den of lions, and the causes of it, and the steps leading to it; and also of his wonderful deliverance out of it, and what followed upon that. It first relates how Daniel was made by Darius first president of the princes of the kingdom, which drew their envy upon him, Da 6:1-4, and that these princes finding they could get no occasion against him, but in religion, proposed to the king to make a law forbidding prayer to any god for thirty days, which they got established, Da 6:5-9, and Daniel breaking this law, is accused by them to the king; and the penalty, casting into the den of lions, is insisted on to be executed, Da 6:10-13, which the king laboured to prevent, but in vain; and Daniel is cast to the lions, to the great grief of the king, Da 6:14-18, who visited the den the next morning, and to his great joy found Daniel alive, Da 6:19-23, upon which, by the law of retaliation, his accusers, their wives, and children, were cast into it, Da 6:24, and an edict was published by the king, commanding all in his dominions to fear and reverence the God of Daniel, Da 6:25-28.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Nehemiah 2:3; Daniel 2:4; Daniel 5:10; Daniel 6:21
2. Daniel 3:2, 27
3. Psalms 59:3; Psalms 62:4; Psalms 64:2-6; Psalms 83:1-3
4. Psalms 10:9; Daniel 3:6; Daniel 6:16
5. Esther 3:12; Esther 8:10; Isaiah 10:1
6. Esther 1:19; Esther 8:8; Daniel 6:12, 15
7. Psalms 118:9; Psalms 146:3
8. 1 Kin 8:44, 48, 49; Psalms 5:7; Jonah 2:4
9. Psalms 55:17; Psalms 95:6
10. Daniel 9:4-19
11. Psalms 34:1; Philippians 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:17, 18

Footnotes 4

[a]. Or "thronging"
[b]. Or "pit," and so throughout the ch
[c]. Lit "does not pass away"
[d]. Or "because"