Daniel 6:12
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| Overview - Daniel 6 | |
| 1 | Daniel is made chief of the presidents. |
| 4 | They, conspiring against him, obtain an idolatrous decree. |
| 10 | Daniel, accused of the breach thereof, is cast into the lion's den. |
| 18 | Daniel is saved; |
| 24 | his adversaries devoured; |
| 25 | and God magnified by a decree. |
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Daniel 6:12 (King James Version)
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- they
- 3:8-12 Acts 16:19 Acts 16:24 ; 24:2-9
- the den
- It is probable that these lions were kept for the purpose of devouring certain criminals, whom the laws might consign to that kind of death.
- The thing
- 8 ; Esther 1:19