Daniel 6:25-28

25 Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth: “May you prosper greatly!

26 “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.

27 He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

28 So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus^[a] the Persian.

Daniel 6:25-28 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Daniel 3:4
• 2. Daniel 4:1
• 3. S Psalms 5:7
• 4. S Esther 8:17; Psalms 99:1-3; Daniel 3:29
• 5. S Joshua 2:11; S Joshua 3:10
• 6. S Jeremiah 10:10; Daniel 12:7; Revelation 1:18
• 7. S Daniel 2:44; Daniel 4:34
• 8. Daniel 3:29
• 9. S Daniel 4:3
• 10. S ver 22
• 11. S 2 Chronicles 36:22; S Daniel 1:21
• 12. S Daniel 5:28

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Darius, that is, the reign of Cyrus"