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Daniel 6:7

in Daniel 6

All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

KJV

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

This verse in Daniel 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governor ... - Several functionaries are enumerated here who are not in the previous verses, as having entered into the conspiracy. It is possible, indeed, that all these different classes of officers had been consulted, and had concurred in asking the enactment of the proposed law; but it is much more probable that the leaders merely represented or affirmed what is here said in order to be more certain of the enactment of the law.

This site's exposition

King Darius, live for ever

on Daniel 6:6-9

The conspirators bring the king a decree engineered to look like flattery, thirty days of petitions to Darius alone, and press him to sign it according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not, a formula the bench sets directly beside the same unalterable law governing Esther's court. Barnes reads the appeal to the king's vanity, live for ever, as calculated to keep Darius from asking why such a decree is needed at all, and the trap closes the moment his signature is on the writing, since even a king who wished to reverse it now cannot. The chapter's real subject surfaces here before Daniel appears in the plot at all: a government whose law cannot bend also cannot pardon.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But it was much worse, and an impudent affront to all religion, to forbid asking a petition of any god. It is by prayer that we give glory to God, fetch in mercy from God; and so keep up our communion with God; and to interdict prayer for thirty days is for so long to rob God of all the tribute he has from man and to rob man of all the comfort he has in God.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They evidently exaggerated the case of the weak king, as if their request was that of all the officers in the empire. den of lions--an underground cave or pit, covered with a stone. It is an undesigned proof of genuineness, that the "fiery furnace" is not made the means of punishment here, as in Da 3:20; for the Persians were fire-worshippers, which the Babylonians were not.

The words behind it

31 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אִתְיָעַ֜טוּthey took counsel together

    ʾityaatuH3272

  • כֹּ֣ל׀all

    kolH360682 times

  • סָרְכֵ֣י[the] overseers of

    sarekheiH56325 times

  • מַלְכוּתָ֗אkingdom the

    malkhuta'H443757 times

  • סִגְנַיָּ֤אprefects the

    signaiya'H54605 times

  • וַֽאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנַיָּא֙and satraps the

    vaachashdarpenaiya'H3249 times

  • הַדָּֽבְרַיָּ֣אcounselors the

    hadaveraiya'H19074 times

  • וּפַחֲוָתָ֔אand governors the

    ufachavata'H634710 times

  • לְקַיָּמָ֤הto establish

    lekaiyamahH696635 times

  • קְיָם֙[the] statute of

    keyamH7010

  • מַלְכָּ֔אking the

    malka'H4430180 times

  • וּלְתַקָּפָ֖הand to make stringent

    uletakafahH86315 times

  • אֱסָ֑רa prohibition

    ʾesarH6337 times

  • דִּ֣יthat

    diH1768345 times

  • כָל־every

    khol-H360682 times

  • דִּֽי־[one] who

    di-H1768345 times

  • יִבְעֵ֣הhe will ask

    yivehH115612 times

  • בָ֠עוּa petition

    vauH1159

  • מִן־from

    min-H4481109 times

  • כָּל־any

    kol-H360682 times

  • אֱלָ֨הּgod

    ʾelahH42695 times

  • וֶֽאֱנָ֜שׁand person

    veenashH60625 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H570535 times

  • יוֹמִ֣יןdays

    yominH311816 times

  • תְּלָתִ֗יןthirty

    telatinH8533

  • לָהֵן֙except

    lahenH38617 times

  • מִנָּ֣ךְfrom you

    minakhH4481109 times

  • מַלְכָּ֔אking O

    malka'H4430180 times

  • יִתְרְמֵ֕אhe will be thrown

    yitreme'H741212 times

  • לְגֹ֖בto [the] den of

    legoH135810 times

  • אַרְיָוָתָֽא׃lions the

    ʾaryavata'H74410 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Daniel 3:27

    and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed,…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 43:2

      When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched;…

    • Hebrews 11:34

      quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

  • Through

    Psalms 59:3

    See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 56:6

      They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

    • Psalms 69:4

      Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

    • 1 Samuel 24:11

      See, my father, look at the corner of your robe in my hand. For I cut it off, but I did not kill you. See and know that there is no evil or rebellion…

  • Through

    Daniel 3:6

    And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”

    it leads to

    • Matthew 13:50

      and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    • Matthew 13:42

      And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    • Jeremiah 29:22

      Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’

Where this verse is studied

About Daniel

Daniel in the Lions' Den — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Daniel in the Lions' Den — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Daniel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.