1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, stationed throughout the whole kingdom,
2 and found Daniel praying and seeking mercy before his God.
12Dan 3.8; Acts 16.19–21Then they approached the king and said concerning the interdict, “O king! Did you not sign an interdict, that anyone who prays to any god or human, within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions?” The king answered, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”
13Esth 3.8; Dan 1.6; 3.12; 5.13; Acts 5.29Then they responded to the king, “Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the interdict you have signed, but he is saying his prayers three times a day.”
14 Mk 6.26 When the king heard the charge, he was very much distressed. He was determined to save Daniel, and until the sun went down he made every effort to rescue him.
15v 8; Esth 8.8Then the conspirators came to the king and said to him, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no interdict or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”
16 vv 7, 20 ; Ps 37; 39; 40; Jer 38.5Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you faithfully serve, deliver you!”
17A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet ring of his lords, so that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
182 Sam 12.16, 17; Esth 6.1; Dan 2.1Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no entertainment was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.
Daniel Saved from the Lions19Then at dawn, the king got up and at first light hurried to the den of lions.
20vv 26, 27; Jer 32.17; Dan 3.17When he came near the den where Daniel was, he cried out anxiously to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you faithfully serve been able to deliver you from the lions?”
21Daniel then said to the king, “O king, live forever!
221 Sam 24.10; Acts 12.11; 2 Tim 4.17; Heb 11.33My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; also before you, O king, I have done no wrong.”
23vv 14, 18; Isa 26.3; Dan 3.25, 27; Heb 11.33Then the king was exceedingly glad and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him because he had trusted in his God.
242 Kings 14.6; Ps 54.5; Isa 38.13The king gave a command, and those who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.
25 Ezra 1.1, 2; Esth 3.12; 8.9; Dan 4.1; 1 Pet 1.2 Then King Darius wrote to all peoples and nations of every language throughout the whole world: “May you have abundant prosperity!
26Ps 93.1, 2; 99.1; Dan 3.29; 4.3, 34; 7.14, 27I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people shall tremble and fear before the God of Daniel:
For he is the living God,
enduring forever.
His kingdom shall never be destroyed,
and his dominion has no end.
27He delivers and rescues;
he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth;
he has saved Daniel
from the power of the lions.”
28 Ezra 1.1, 2; Dan 1.21; 10.1 So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
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