Daniel 6:21-28

21 Then Daniel spoke to the king, "¹O king, live forever!

22 "My God ²sent His angel and ³shut the lions' mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch * * as I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime."

23 Then the king was very pleased and gave orders for Daniel to be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and ⁴no * injury whatever was found on him, because he had ⁵trusted in his God.

24 The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously * accused * Daniel, and they ⁶cast them, their ⁷children and their wives into the lions' den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before * the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

25 Then Darius the king wrote to all the ⁸peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land: "⁹May your peace abound!

26 "I ¹⁰make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before * the God of Daniel; For He is the ¹¹living God and ¹²enduring forever, And ¹³His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, And His dominion will be forever.

27 "He delivers and rescues and performs ¹⁴signs and wonders In heaven and on earth, Who has also delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."

28 So this ¹⁵Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of ¹⁶Cyrus the Persian.

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Daniel 6:21-28 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 16

1. Daniel 2:4; Daniel 6:6
2. Numbers 20:16; Isaiah 63:9; Daniel 3:28; Acts 12:11; Hebrews 1:14
3. Psalms 91:11-13; 2 Timothy 4:17; Hebrews 11:33
4. Daniel 3:25, 27
5. 1 Chronicles 5:20; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Psalms 118:8, 9; Isaiah 26:3; Daniel 3:17, 28
6. Deuteronomy 19:18, 19; Esther 7:10
7. Deuteronomy 24:16; 2 Kings 14:6; Esther 9:10
8. Ezra 1:1, 2; Esther 3:12; Esther 8:9; Daniel 4:1
9. Ezra 4:17; 1 Peter 1:2
10. Ezra 6:8-12; Ezra 7:13, 21; Daniel 3:29
11. Daniel 4:34; Daniel 6:20; Hosea 1:10; Romans 9:26
12. Psalms 93:1, 2; Malachi 3:6
13. Daniel 2:44; Daniel 4:3; Daniel 7:14, 27; Luke 1:33
14. Daniel 4:2, 3
15. Daniel 1:21
16. 2 Chronicles 36:22, 23; Daniel 10:1

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "with"
[b]. Lit "innocence was found for me"
[c]. Lit "before"
[d]. Lit "eaten the pieces of Daniel"
[e]. Lit "tongue"
[f]. Or "welfare" or "prosperity"
[g]. Lit "From me a decree is made"
[h]. Lit "to the end"
[i]. Lit "hand"