These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Daniel 6
Tanakh 28 verses
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It pleased Darius to set over the a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole ;
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- 2 and over them three presidents, of whom was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the should have no damage.
- 3 Then this distinguished himself above the presidents and the satraps, because a surpassing was in him; and the thought to set him over the whole realm.
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Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against as touching the ; but they could find no occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
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Philippians 2:15 1 Peter 3:16 1 Peter 2:12 Ecclesiastes 4:4 Luke 23:14-15 Genesis 43:18 Proverbs 29:27 Jeremiah 20:10 Psalm 37:32-33 Titus 2:8 Luke 20:20 Matthew 27:18 Daniel 3:8 Judges 14:4 1 Samuel 19:4-5 Psalm 37:12-13 1 Samuel 18:14 1 Timothy 5:14 Luke 22:2 Jeremiah 18:18 1 Peter 4:14-16 Jeremiah 18:23 Matthew 26:4 John 19:4 2 Corinthians 11:12 1 Samuel 22:14 -
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Then said these men: ‘We shall not find any occasion against this , except we find it against him in the matter of the of his .’
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- 6 Then these presidents and satraps came tumultuously to the , and said thus unto him: ‘King Darius, live for ever!
- 7 All the presidents of the , the prefects and the satraps, the ministers and the governors, have consulted together that the should establish a , and make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any or man for thirty days, of thee, O , he shall be cast into the den of lions.
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Now, O , establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.’
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Wherefore Darius signed the writing and the interdict.
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And when knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house—now his windows were open in his upper chamber toward —and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his , as he did aforetime.
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Acts 5:29 Psalm 95:6 Psalm 55:17 Psalm 34:1 Philippians 4:6 1 Kings 8:44 Psalm 5:7 1 Kings 8:48-50 Acts 5:40-42 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 Hebrews 13:15 Jonah 2:4 Hebrews 4:16 Acts 3:1 Acts 21:5 Acts 4:17-19 Nehemiah 6:11 Acts 7:60 Luke 22:41 Acts 5:20 Acts 4:29 Philippians 1:14 Acts 10:9 Matthew 10:28-33 1 Kings 8:38 Psalm 11:1-2 Psalm 86:3 Ephesians 3:14 Revelation 2:10 Luke 14:26 Acts 2:1-2 1 Kings 8:54 Daniel 6:13 Acts 20:36 Luke 12:4-9 Acts 20:24 Philippians 1:20 Acts 2:15 Acts 9:40 2 Chronicles 6:13 Ezra 9:5 Revelation 2:13 Colossians 3:17 2 Chronicles 6:38 -
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Then these men came tumultuously, and found making petition and supplication before his .
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Then they came near, and spoke before the concerning the king’s interdict: ‘Hast thou not signed an interdict, that every man that shall make petition unto any or man within thirty days, of thee, O , shall be cast into the den of lions?’ The answered and said: ‘The thing is true, according to the of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.’
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Then answered they and said before the : ‘That , who is of the children of the captivity of , regardeth not thee, O , nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.’
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Then the , when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his on to deliver him; and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
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Then these men came tumultuously unto the , and said unto the : ‘Know, O , that it is a of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor which the establisheth may be changed.’
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Then the commanded, and they brought , and cast him into the den of lions. Now the spoke and said unto : ‘Thy whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.’
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Psalm 37:39-40 Job 5:19 Daniel 3:28 Psalm 91:14-16 Psalm 118:8-9 Isaiah 43:2 Daniel 6:20 Daniel 3:17 Proverbs 29:25 2 Samuel 3:39 Jeremiah 38:5 Acts 25:11 Jeremiah 26:14 Romans 13:3 Matthew 27:23-26 Acts 24:27 Daniel 6:7 Acts 25:9 Matthew 14:8-10 Daniel 3:15 John 19:12-16 Mark 6:25-28 Mark 15:14-15 Acts 27:23-24 -
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And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning .
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- 18 Then the went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were diversions brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.
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Then the arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
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And when he came near unto the den to , he cried with a pained voice; the spoke and said to : ‘O , of the living , is thy , whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?’
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Daniel 3:17 Hebrews 7:25 Daniel 6:16 Daniel 6:27 1 Chronicles 16:11 2 Corinthians 1:10 Numbers 11:23 Luke 18:1 Psalm 71:14-18 James 1:25 Jeremiah 32:17 Hosea 12:6 Daniel 3:28-29 Psalm 73:23 Genesis 18:14 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 2 Timothy 4:16-18 Daniel 3:15 Proverbs 23:17-18 Luke 1:37 Numbers 14:15-16 Romans 2:7 Jude 1:24 2 Timothy 1:12 Colossians 4:2 Acts 6:4 Psalm 119:112 Psalm 146:2 -
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Then said unto the : ‘O , live for ever!
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My hath sent His , and hath shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O , have I done no hurt.’
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Hebrews 11:33 2 Timothy 4:17 Psalm 91:11-13 Daniel 3:28 Acts 12:11 Isaiah 63:9 Numbers 20:16 Micah 7:7 Acts 27:23 1 Samuel 17:37 1 John 3:19-21 Psalm 18:19-24 Psalm 7:1-4 2 Samuel 22:7 Acts 24:16 Psalm 34:7 2 Chronicles 32:21 Psalm 31:14 1 Samuel 24:9-11 2 Corinthians 1:12 Psalm 26:6 Psalm 84:11 Daniel 6:23 1 Samuel 26:18 John 20:17-18 Psalm 118:28 Isaiah 3:10 Genesis 40:15 Acts 25:8-11 Daniel 6:20 Psalm 38:21 Matthew 27:46 - 23 Then was the exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take up out of the den. So was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he had trusted in his .
- 24 And the commanded, and they brought those men that had accused , and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and they had not come to the bottom of the den, when the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces.
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Then Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: ‘Peace be multiplied unto you.
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I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my men tremble and before the of ; For He is the living , And stedfast for ever, And His that which shall not be destroyed, And His dominion shall be even unto the end;
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Daniel 4:34 Daniel 3:29 Psalm 99:1-3 Daniel 4:3 Daniel 2:44 Luke 1:33 Daniel 7:14 Daniel 7:27 Romans 9:26 Jeremiah 10:10 Malachi 3:6 Psalm 2:11 Psalm 29:10 Hosea 1:10 Ezra 7:12-13 Psalm 93:1-2 Ezra 6:8-12 Isaiah 9:7 Psalm 146:10 Psalm 119:120 James 1:17 1 Samuel 17:36 Deuteronomy 5:26 Luke 12:5 Daniel 6:20 Acts 17:25 Matthew 6:13 Revelation 11:15 Isaiah 66:2 Revelation 5:14 Psalm 145:12-13 Revelation 4:10 1 Samuel 17:26 Hebrews 6:17-18 Hebrews 12:29 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - 27 He delivereth and rescueth, And He worketh signs and wonders In and in earth; Who hath delivered from the power of the lions.’
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So this prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
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