Daniel 6:3
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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 6:3 (King James Version)
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
- was preferred
- Proverbs 22:29
- an
- Daniel 5:12 Daniel 5:14 9:23 Genesis 41:38-41 ; Nehemiah 7:2 ; Proverbs 3:3 Proverbs 3:4 ; 17:27 Ecclesiastes 2:13
- thought
- Intended to make him grand vizier or {emiru'l umra.} Daniel had now been employed full sixty-five years as prime minister under the kings of Babylon; and was justly entitled, from his acknowledged wisdom, to this preference.