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Daniel 6:7

Daniel 6:7 All H3606 governors H5632 kingdom H4437 administrators H5460 satraps H324 counselors H1907 advisors H6347 together H3272 (H8724) establish H6966 (H8742) royal H4430 statute H7010 firm H8631 (H8742) decree H633 petitions H1156 (H8748) H1159 H4481 any H3606 god H426 man H606 for H5705 thirty H8533 days H3118 except H3861 you H4481 king H4430 cast H7412 (H8729) den H1358 lions H744

All - Daniel 6:2-3, Daniel 3:2, Daniel 3:27

have consulted - Psalms 2:2, Psalms 59:3, Psalms 62:4, Psalms 83:1-3, Psalms 94:20; Micah 6:5; Matthew 12:14, Matthew 26:4; Mark 15:1; John 12:10; Acts 4:5-7, Acts 4:26-28

decree - or, interdict

he shall - Daniel 3:6, Daniel 3:11; Psalms 10:9; Nahum 2:12

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Daniel 6:7. _WHOSOEVER SHALL ASK A PETITION_] What pretense could they urge for so silly an ordinance? Probably to _flatter_ the ambition of the king, they pretend to make him _a god_ for _thirt...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 s...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:7 decree, (b-30) Strictly, 'interdict,' or 'prohibition;' and so throughout, to ver. 15....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEN OF LIONS Darius the Mede divides his kingdom into 120 satrapies, the whole being superintended by three higher officials, of whom Daniel was one (Daniel 6:1). Daniel is in special favour, and...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GOVERNORS.. CAPTAINS] RV 'deputies.. governors.' DECREE] RV 'interdict': so in Daniel 6:8; Daniel 6:12; Daniel 6:15. GOD] RV 'god': so in Daniel 6

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DECREE: Or, interdict...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 6:1 The events of ch. Daniel 6:1 recall the events of ch. Daniel 3:1. However, while ch....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 6:4 The other officials in the Medo-Persian court are jealous of Daniel’s success. They conspire to get the king to issue an edict that Daniel cannot obey. ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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