Dànyǐlǐshū 6:14

14 Wáng tīngjian zhè huà , jiù shén chóu fán , yī xīn yào jiù Dànyǐlǐ , chóu huá jiĕ jiù tā , zhídào rìluò de shíhou .

Dànyǐlǐshū 6:14 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 6:14

Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased
with himself
Or "at it" ^F5; or "with him"; with Daniel, not so much for what he had done, but that he had not done it with more caution, or more privately, that it might not have been known: or rather, as we render it, "with himself", that he should so rashly sign the decree, without considering the consequences of it; for he now found that he was circumvented by his princes, and that their design was not his honour and glory, but the destruction of Daniel: or the sense in general is, that what he heard was very disagreeable, afflictive, and distressing to him: and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him;
he resolved, if possible, to do it; he applied his mind to it; he turned his thoughts wholly that way, and contrived all ways and means to effect it: R. Mattathiah, in Saadiah, interprets the phrase of his offering money as a ransom for his life: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to save him;
from the will of the princes, and from the jaws of the lions: very probably it was early in the morning these princes found Daniel at prayer, who went immediately to the king with their accusation; so that he was all day labouring with all his might and main to find out ways and means to save his darling favourite; he studied to put such a sense upon his decree, that it might not reach Daniel's case; he strove to make the princes easy, and to persuade them to drop the affair, and not insist on the execution of the decree.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (yhwle) "super eo", Montanus; "super ipsum", De Dieu.

Dànyǐlǐshū 6:14 In-Context

12 Tāmen biàn jìn dào wáng qián , tí wáng de jīn líng , shuō , wáng a , sān shí rì neì bùjū hé rén , ruò zaì wáng yǐwaì , huò xiàng shén huò xiàng rén qiú shénme , bì beì rēng zaì shīzi kēng zhōng . wáng bú shì zaì zhè jīn líng shang gĕ le yù xǐ ma . wáng huídá shuō , shí yǒu zhè shì , zhào Mǎdaì .

13 Tāmen duì wáng shuō , wáng a , nà beìlǔ zhī Yóudà rén zhōng de Dànyǐlǐ bù lǐ nǐ , yĕ bú zūn nǐ gaì le yù xǐ de jīn líng , tā jìng yī rì sān cì qídǎo .

14 Wáng tīngjian zhè huà , jiù shén chóu fán , yī xīn yào jiù Dànyǐlǐ , chóu huá jiĕ jiù tā , zhídào rìluò de shíhou .

15 Nàxiē rén jiù fēnfēn jùjí lái jiàn wáng , shuō , wáng a , dāng zhīdào Mǎdaì rén hé Bōsī rén yǒu lì , fán wáng suǒ lì de jīn líng hé lǜ lì dōu bùkĕ gēnggǎi .

16 Wáng xià líng , rén jiù bǎ Dànyǐlǐ daì lái , rēng zaì shīzi kēng zhōng . wáng duì Dànyǐlǐ shuō , nǐ suǒ cháng shìfèng de shén , tā bì jiù nǐ .