21Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-24)Here is, I. The melancholy night which the king had, upon Daniel’s account, Dan. 6:18. He had said, indeed, that God would deliver him out of the danger, but at the same time he could not forgive himself for throwing him into the danger; and justly might God deprive him of a friend whom he had himself used so barbarously. He went to his palace , vexed at himself for what he had done, and calling h…
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