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Book of Daniel, Chapter 6

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Daniel 6 NASB - New American Standard BibleDaniel 6 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 6 of Daniel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. [a]It seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,
  2. and over them three commissioners (of whom 1Daniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer 2loss.
  3. Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself [b]among the commissioners and satraps because [c]he possessed an 3extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the 4entire kingdom.
  4. Then the commissioners and satraps began 5trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to [d]government affairs; but they could find 6no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.
  5. Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the 7law of his God.”
  6. ¶ Then these commissioners and satraps came [e]by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, 8live forever!
  7. All the 9commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have 10consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall 11be cast into the lions’ [f]den.
  8. Now, O king, 12establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the 13law of the Medes and Persians, which [g]may not be revoked.”
  9. Therefore King Darius 14signed the document, that is, the injunction.
  10. ¶ Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open 15toward Jerusalem); and he continued 16kneeling on his knees three times a day, 17praying and 18giving thanks before his God, [h]as he had been doing previously.
  11. Then these men came [i]19by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
  12. Then they approached and 20spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the 21law of the Medes and Persians, which [j]may not be revoked.”
  13. Then they answered and spoke before the king, “22Daniel, who is one of the [k]exiles from Judah, pays 23no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day.”
  14. ¶ Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply 24distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him.
  15. Then these men came [l]by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a 25law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”
  16. ¶ Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and 26cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “[m]27Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”
  17. A 28stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed in regard to Daniel.
  18. Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night 29fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his 30sleep fled from him.
  19. ¶ Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions’ den.
  20. When he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has 31your God, whom you constantly serve, been 32able to deliver you from the lions?”
  21. Then Daniel spoke [n]to the king, “33O king, live forever!
  22. My God 34sent His angel and 35shut the lions’ mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as [o]I was found innocent before Him; and also [p]toward you, O king, I have committed no crime.”
  23. Then the king was very pleased and gave orders for Daniel to be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and 36no injury whatever was found on him, because he had 37trusted in his God.
  24. The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had [q]maliciously accused Daniel, and they 38cast them, their 39children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
  25. ¶ Then Darius the king wrote to all the 40peoples, nations and men of every [r]language who were living in all the land: “41May your [s]peace abound!
  26. [t]I 42make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel;
    ¶ For He is the 43living God and 44enduring forever,
    And 45His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,
    And His dominion will be [u]forever.
  27. “He delivers and rescues and performs 46signs and wonders
    In heaven and on earth,
    Who has also delivered Daniel from the [v]power of the lions.”
  28. ¶ So this 47Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of 48Cyrus the Persian.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Ch 6:2 in Aram
  2. ^ Lit above
  3. ^ Lit there was in him
  4. ^ Lit the kingdom
  5. ^ Or thronging
  6. ^ Or pit, and so throughout the ch
  7. ^ Lit does not pass away
  8. ^ Or because
  9. ^ Or thronging
  10. ^ Lit does not pass away
  11. ^ Lit sons of the exile
  12. ^ Or thronging
  13. ^ Or May your God...Himself deliver you
  14. ^ Lit with
  15. ^ Lit innocence was found for me
  16. ^ Lit before
  17. ^ Lit eaten the pieces of Daniel
  18. ^ Lit tongue
  19. ^ Or welfare or prosperity
  20. ^ Lit From me a decree is made
  21. ^ Lit to the end
  22. ^ Lit hand

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Da 2:48, 49; 5:16, 29
  2. ^ Ezr 4:22; Es 7:4
  3. ^ Da 5:12, 14; 9:23
  4. ^ Ge 41:40; Es 10:3
  5. ^ Ge 43:18; Jg 14:4; Je 20:10; Da 3:8; Lu 20:20
  6. ^ Da 6:22; Lu 20:26; 23:14, 15; Pp 2:15; 1Pe 2:12; 3:16
  7. ^ Ac 24:13-16, 20, 21
  8. ^ Ne 2:3; Da 2:4; 5:10; 6:21
  9. ^ Da 3:2, 27
  10. ^ Ps 59:3; 62:4; 64:2-6; 83:1-3
  11. ^ Ps 10:9; Da 3:6; 6:16
  12. ^ Es 3:12; 8:10; Is 10:1
  13. ^ Es 1:19; 8:8; Da 6:12, 15
  14. ^ Ps 118:9; 146:3
  15. ^ 1Ki 8:44, 48, 49; Ps 5:7; Jon 2:4
  16. ^ Ps 55:17; 95:6
  17. ^ Da 9:4-19
  18. ^ Ps 34:1; Pp 4:6; 1Th 5:17, 18
  19. ^ Ps 37:32, 33; Da 6:6
  20. ^ Da 3:8-12; Ac 16:19-21
  21. ^ Es 1:19; Da 6:8, 15
  22. ^ Da 2:25; 5:13
  23. ^ Es 3:8; Da 3:12; Ac 5:29
  24. ^ Mr 6:26
  25. ^ Es 8:8; Ps 94:20, 21; Da 6:8, 12
  26. ^ 2Sa 3:39; Je 38:5; Da 6:7
  27. ^ Jb 5:19; Ps 37:39, 40; Is 41:10; Da 3:17, 28; 6:20; 2Co 1:10
  28. ^ La 3:53; Mt 27:66
  29. ^ 2Sa 12:16, 17
  30. ^ Es 6:1; Ps 77:4; Da 2:1
  31. ^ Da 6:16, 27
  32. ^ Ge 18:14; Nu 11:23; Je 32:17; Da 3:17
  33. ^ Da 2:4; 6:6
  34. ^ Nu 20:16; Is 63:9; Da 3:28; Ac 12:11; Heb 1:14
  35. ^ Ps 91:11-13; 2Ti 4:17; Heb 11:33
  36. ^ Da 3:25, 27
  37. ^ 1Ch 5:20; 2Ch 20:20; Ps 118:8, 9; Is 26:3; Da 3:17, 28
  38. ^ De 19:18, 19; Es 7:10
  39. ^ De 24:16; 2Ki 14:6; Es 9:10
  40. ^ Ezr 1:1, 2; Es 3:12; 8:9; Da 4:1
  41. ^ Ezr 4:17; 1Pe 1:2
  42. ^ Ezr 6:8-12; 7:13, 21; Da 3:29
  43. ^ Da 4:34; 6:20; Ho 1:10; Ro 9:26
  44. ^ Ps 93:1, 2; Ml 3:6
  45. ^ Da 2:44; 4:3; 7:14, 27; Lu 1:33
  46. ^ Da 4:2, 3
  47. ^ Da 1:21
  48. ^ 2Ch 36:22, 23; Da 10:1

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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