Daniel 6:1-6

1 Le pareció bien a Darío constituir sobre el reino ciento veinte sátrapas que gobernaran en todo el reino,
2 y sobre ellos, tres funcionarios (uno de los cuales era Daniel) a quienes estos sátrapas rindieran cuenta, para que el rey no fuera perjudicado.
3 Pero este mismo Daniel sobresalía entre los funcionarios y sátrapas porque había en él un espíritu extraordinario, de modo que el rey pensó ponerlo sobre todo el reino.
4 Entonces los funcionarios y sátrapas buscaron un motivo para acusar a Daniel con respecto a los asuntos del reino; pero no pudieron encontrar ningún motivo de acusación ni evidencia alguna de corrupción, por cuanto él era fiel, y ninguna negligencia ni corrupción podía hallarse en él.
5 Entonces estos hombres dijeron: No encontraremos ningún motivo de acusación contra este Daniel a menos que encontremos algo contra él en relación con la ley de su Dios.
6 Estos funcionarios y sátrapas, de común acuerdo, fueron entonces al rey y le dijeron así: ¡Rey Darío, vive para siempre!

Daniel 6:1-6 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.

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