Daniel 6:26-28

26 1I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion 2people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for 3he is 4the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, 5and his dominion shall be 6to the end.
27 He delivers and rescues; he works 7signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has 8saved Daniel from the power of the lions."
28 So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and 9the reign of 10Cyrus the Persian.

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Daniel 6:26-28 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 10

  • 1. See Daniel 3:10
  • 2. [Daniel 5:19; Psalms 99:1; Ecclesiastes 12:13]
  • 3. ver. 20
  • 4. See Daniel 4:34
  • 5. See Daniel 4:34
  • 6. Daniel 7:26
  • 7. Daniel 4:2
  • 8. [Daniel 3:28, 29]
  • 9. [Daniel 1:21]
  • 10. 2 Chronicles 36:22, 23; Ezra 1:2; Ezra 4:3, 5; Ezra 6:3, 14; Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1; [Daniel 1:21; Daniel 10:1]
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